Abstract:

In this paper, we first introduce the background of SAMSS China HPC TOP100 rank list. Then we give the total performance trend of China HPC TOP100 and TOP10 of 2012. Followed with this, the performance, manufacturer, and application area of 2012 China HPC TOP100 are analyzed in detail. We found out that the average Linpack performance gap between China TOP100 and TOP500 has increased from half year to one year around. Based on public available historical data and TOP100 supercomputers peak performance data from 1993 to 2012 in China mainland, we predict the future performance trend of China HPC TOP100. We found out that supercomputer with 10Petaflops peak performance will appear between 2012 and 2013, total Linpack performance of China HPC TOP100 rank list will be over 100Petaflops between 2013 and 2014, supercomputer with 100Petaflops peak performance will appear between 2014 and 2015 and supercomputer with Exaflops peak performance will appear between 2017 and 2018.

Key words: high performance computer;TOP100;rank list;performance;analysis