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One is the new 1.25 (peak) petaflop Tera 100 system from Bull, which was installed for the French Atomic Energy Authority (the CEA). According to the Thursday press release, the machine was just powered up on 26 May, so presumably they missed the deadline earlier this month to turn in the Linpack benchmark results for the June list (although perhaps they did some lab benchmarking before deployment).
The second system won't be officially announced until the week of ISC, so I can't really say anything about it yet, except that it too is a petaflopper and it's a brand new machine. If the owners got their Linpack results in on time, it will almost certainly be a top 5 system.
NVIDIA will also be attending this year (as a co-exhibitor with Microsoft), representing the first time the GPU maker has made the trek to ISC. With GPU computing storming into the HPC landscape this year, it's little wonder that NVIDIA wants to get in on the fun. I counted 11 GPU computing presentations at the conference, and I'm guessing we'll see some buzz about the new top-end supers equipped with (or soon to be equipped with) the latest Fermi hardware. |
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