Power Overwhelming
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) participated in the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) High Performance 2023. The ISC High Performance 2023 is an international conference and exhibition that fosters the growth of a global high performance computing (HPC) community of technology providers and users.
The combined performance of Korean supercomputers owned by Samsung, SK Telecom, and KT took 8th place in the world according to the results at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2023 held in Hamburg, Germany, from May 21 to 25, the KISTI announced on May 25.
Korea placed eight supercomputers in the top 500 of the global supercomputer rankings, including Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology’s SSC-21 (20th place), the Korea Meteorological Administration’s twin supercomputers Guru and Maru (37th), SK Telecom’s Titan (47th), KISTI’s Nurion (49th), and KT’s DGX Superford (No. 58th). KT’s supercomputer entered the list for the first time. Their combined computing power ranked eighth in overall performance. The combined number of their super computers was ninth most.
U.S.-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier took the top spot for the second year in a row. Frontier’s measured performance was 1.194 exaflops, which is a whopping 119.4 quintillion calculations per second. The second and third ranked were the same as 2022. Fugaku in Japan came in second and LUMI in Finland third.
No changes were made in rankings among the top 20 with the exception of new entrants MS Azure and Nvidia, which came in 11th and 14th, respectively.
The United States accounted for nearly half (45.8 percent) of the world’s supercomputer performance. Japan followed with 12.5 percent and China with 8.9 percent. Korea placed eighth with a 2 percent share.
In terms of numbers of units, the United States led with 150. China (134) took second place, followed by Germany (36), Japan (33), France (24), the United Kingdom (14), and Canada (10). With the exception of China, the list is dominated by Western industrialized countries (G7).
KISTI has been preparing to introduce supercomputer Unit 6 with 600 petaflops (1 petaflops is 1,000 trillion calculations per second) of performance since August 2022.