NVIDIA expands footprint across TOP500 supercomputers

NVIDIA technologies now power more than 400 of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers, representing 81% of the latest TOP500 ranking released at the ISC High Performance conference in Hamburg, Germany. The total rose by 17 systems from the previous list, while nearly nine of every 10 systems new to the ranking use NVIDIA technologies.

Adoption spans GPUs, networking and CPUs. NVIDIA GPUs accelerate a record 238 systems, and NVIDIA networking connects a record 376, mostly through NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand with the remainder on Ethernet. NVIDIA Grace CPU adoption reached 26 systems, up eight from the previous list, with nearly 2.5 million Grace CPUs shipped. Grace-based machines include JUPITER at No. 5 and Alps at No. 10 on the TOP500, plus KAIROS at No. 1 on the Green500.

NVIDIA also led the Green500 efficiency ranking, where the top eight systems run on NVIDIA GPUs and nine of the top 10 use NVIDIA technologies. KAIROS, a Grace Hopper system at France’s University of Toulouse, leads at 73.3 gigaflops per watt. In Europe, a record 35 NVIDIA AI HPC supercomputers are in development for more than 3 million researchers, including JUPITER, Europe’s fastest supercomputer and its first to reach exascale.