TOP 50 SUPERCOMPUTERS RATING PUBLISHED

MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - The Computing Research Center at the Moscow-based Lomonosov State University and the Interdepartmental Supercomputing Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences announce issue of the second edition of the Top 50 rating of supercomputers in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The basic trend in the list dynamics over the past three months is a sizeable increase in the share of commercially used supercomputers, the political daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes.

The Computing Research Center deputy director Vladimir Voyevodin says that in the updated list of supercomputers are now leading banks, factories, as well as a novel entry -- the oil-producing sector. The list is now much closer to the world figures, where about 30 percent of supercomputers are doing work for different industries.

Russia's most powerful computer is located in the Interdepartmental Supercomputing Center and is made up of 276 units (2xPowerPC 970 2.2 GHz 4 GB RAM). The most powerful computer for commercial service is held by the Savings Bank (Sberbank) and is based on HP SuperDome PA-RISC 750 MHz.

The most efficient cluster in the CIS is found in the Institute of Information Science and Automatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in Yerevan. It is made up of 64 units (2xXeon 3 GHz 1 GB RAM). For the full version of the rating go to: http://www.supercomputers.ru/?page=rating.