Sunway TaihuLight
The largest and most powerful computer ever created. Boasting more than 10 million processors and nearly triple the performance of its Chinese rival (93 petaflops), TaihuLight is also the most effective away from the list, with 6051 megaflops per watt
Tianhe-2
Milky Way 2 (name translated) has finally been dethroned after six years in a row at the top of the list. It continues to have a superponte system with 3,120,000 processors that generate 33.9 petaflops sustained, but the Chinese government has removed the position relegating to the second position
Titan
Titan is the centerpiece of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pumping 17.6 petaflops for US Department of Energy research projects. It is one of the longest in the list after the computer K.
Sequoia
The most important batter at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is Sequoia, an IBM machine with 17.1 petaflops. Its power comes from almost 1,573,000 processors, and has the third best efficiency with 21777 megaflops per watt.
K Computer
The oldest member of this club is the Fujitsu K Computer, with a figure of 10.5 petaflops at the RIKEN Institute in Japan. Only 11 of the 500 machines on the list have been able to beat him, but none have passed their time in the top 10 list.
Mira
Located at the Aragonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Mira is a senior member on this list with its 786,000 processors making it up to 8.59 petaflops in performance. In fact, only two other computers have been on the list for as long as Mira.
Trinity
Los Alamos National Laboratory has the Trinity computer, designed to help scientists predict and neutralize the distribution of nuclear weapons. It is the second time that it appears in the list of the top 10, although the last time his 8,1 of performance petaflops served him to obtain the sixth position; on this occasion it has fallen to the seventh.
Piz Daint
The Swiss National Computer Center has Piz Daint on the list since 2012, one of the two computers on the list that has 73,808 of the NVIDIA Tesla accelerated processors of the 116,000 cores it has. With the 6.27 petaflops it counts, it is the second in efficient systems of the whole list, offering 2697 megaflops of performance per watt of power.
Hazel Hen
At the University of Stuttgart they have Hazel Hen, one of the two European computers that have entered this top 10 list. It has 5.64 petaflops of performance thanks to the 185,000 processors with which it counts, and so far, is the unique that counts in the list with a name of bird.
Shaheen II
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology holds Shaheen II, number ten in the ranch for the third consecutive time. It is a Cray machine that has a total of 200,000 processors, 5,536 performance petaflops with a fairly reasonable energy efficiency of 1954 megaflops per watt.
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