| 17 June 2008
With 184 machines in the TOP500, Europe has more systems in the TOP500 than ever during the last decade. Just two years ago, there were only 84. The USA is stil dominating the list with 260 entries. Asia ony has 48 systems in the TOP500. Also in the TOP10 Europe is doing OK with 3 systems. JUGENE in Juelich, Germany, is th fastest system in Europe at position 6 wordlwide. At postion 9 is the second fastest European system: an IBM at IDRIS, France. The SGI at Total in France on postion 10 is also the fastest supercomputer in industry in the world. From the 10 fastest machines in Europe, 6 are produced by IBM, 2 by SGI, one by Cray and one by HP. The European country with the most supercomputers is the UK, followed by Germany and France. A newcomer is Slovenia with its first entrance in the TOP500.
|  The development of the TOP500 over time in Europe
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