4 Background Information about some of the TOP25 sites

Wherever available some short summary of the mission and the environment of the TOP25 sites will be given below. If not noted otherwise, this information was gathered from home pages of these sites on the world wide web (WWW). Many of the supercomputer sites have created such home pages. In order to facilitate browsing the net, URLs for site home pages are given.

• 4.1 National Aerospace Laboratory Numerical Wind Tunnel, Tokyo, Japan - 184.409 Gflop/s
• 4.2 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee - 159.900 Gflop/s
• 4.3 National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland - 156.471 Gflop/s
• 4.4 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico - 155.400 Gflop/s
• 4.5 Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico - 143.400 Gflop/s
• 4.6 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, - 124.620 Gflop/s
• 4.7 National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK), Japan - 98.900 Gflop/s
• 4.8 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - 96.024 Gflop/s
• 4.9 University of Tokyo, Japan - 83.776 Gflop/s
• 4.10 Maui High Performance Computing Center, Kihei, Hawaii - 83.700 Gflop/s
• 4.11 Japan Atomic Energy Institute, Japan - 75.918 Gflop/s
• 4.12 Tohuku University, Japan - 71.300 Gflop/s
• 4.13 Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 64.500 Gflop/s
• 4.14 Atmospheric Env. Serv., Dorval, Canada - 58.670 Gflop/s
• 4.15 Nagoya University, Japan - 58.509 Gflop/s