HPCG - June 2021

The TOP500 list has incorporated the High-Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) Benchmark results, which provides an alternative metric for assessing supercomputer performance and is meant to complement the HPL measurement.

Fugaku, the clear winner of the TOP500, stayed consistent with last year's results with 16.0 HPCG-petaflops. Summit also stuck with the results from last year, with Summit achieving 2.93 HPCG-petaflops and Perlmutter, a new system, benchmarking with 1.91 HPCG-petaflops.

HPL-AI Results

The HPL-AI benchmark seeks to highlight the convergence of HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads based on machine learning and deep learning by solving a system of linear equations using novel, mixed-precision algorithms that exploit modern hardware.

Much like the TOP500, RIKEN's Fugaku system is leading the pack here. As stated, this machine is considered by some to be the first "Exascale" supercomputer. Fugaku demonstrated this new level of performance on the new HPL-AI benchmark with 2 Exaflops

Rank TOP500 Rank System Cores Rmax (PFlop/s) HPCG (TFlop/s)
1 1 Supercomputer Fugaku - Supercomputer Fugaku, A64FX 48C 2.2GHz, Tofu interconnect D, Fujitsu
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Japan
7,630,848 442.01 16004.50
2 2 Summit - IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband, IBM
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States
2,414,592 148.60 2925.75
3 5 Perlmutter - HPE Cray EX235n, AMD EPYC 7763 64C 2.45GHz, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB, Slingshot-10, HPE
DOE/SC/LBNL/NERSC
United States
706,304 64.59 1905.44
4 3 Sierra - IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.1GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband, IBM / NVIDIA / Mellanox
DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States
1,572,480 94.64 1795.67
5 6 Selene - NVIDIA DGX A100, AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz, NVIDIA A100, Mellanox HDR Infiniband, Nvidia
NVIDIA Corporation
United States
555,520 63.46 1622.51
6 8 JUWELS Booster Module - Bull Sequana XH2000 , AMD EPYC 7402 24C 2.8GHz, NVIDIA A100, Mellanox HDR InfiniBand/ParTec ParaStation ClusterSuite, EVIDEN
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
Germany
449,280 44.12 1275.36
7 11 Dammam-7 - Cray CS-Storm, Xeon Gold 6248 20C 2.5GHz, NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2, InfiniBand HDR 100, HPE
Saudi Aramco
Saudi Arabia
672,520 22.40 881.40
8 9 HPC5 - PowerEdge C4140, Xeon Gold 6252 24C 2.1GHz, NVIDIA Tesla V100, Mellanox HDR Infiniband, DELL
Eni S.p.A.
Italy
669,760 35.45 860.32
9 13 Wisteria/BDEC-01 (Odyssey) - PRIMEHPC FX1000, A64FX 48C 2.2GHz, Tofu interconnect D, Fujitsu
Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
Japan
368,640 22.12 817.58
10 39 Earth Simulator -SX-Aurora TSUBASA - SX-Aurora TSUBASA B401-8, Vector Engine Type20B 8C 1.6GHz, Infiniband HDR200, NEC
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Japan
43,776 9.99 747.80