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A closer look at the world's top supercomputers.

Scientific Computing & Instrumentation, August, 2003

1 Earth-Simulator

The Earth Simulator supercomputer was built by NEC and installed last year at the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan. This supercomputer is configured with 640 nodes (64 GFLOPS/node, 5,120 CPUs in total), each of which consists of eight vector processors (8 GFLOPS/CPU), and achieves the peak performance of 40 TFLOPS (40 trillion floating-point operations per second). The Earth Simulator creates a "virtual planet earth" on the computer by its capability of processing vast volumes of data sent from satellites, buoys and other worldwide observation points. The system will help to analyze and predict environmental changes on the earth through the simulation of various global scale environmental phenomena such as global warming, El Nino...

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