Red Hat Powers the Future of Supercomputing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
World’s leading enterprise Linux platform provides the operating system for the top 3 supercomputers globally and four out of the top 10
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the operating system backbone for the top three supercomputers in the world and four out of the top 10, according to the newest TOP500 ranking. Already serving as a catalyst for enterprise innovation across the hybrid cloud, these rankings also show that the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform can deliver a foundation to meet even the most demanding computing environments.
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In the top ten of the current TOP500 list, Red Hat Enterprise Linux serves as the operating system for:
- Fugaku, the top-ranked supercomputer in the world based at RIKEN Center for Computational Sciences in Kobe, Japan.
- Summit, the number two-ranked supercomputer based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
- Sierra, the third-ranked supercomputer globally based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
- Marconi-100, the ninth-ranked supercomputer installed at CINECA research center in Italy.
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High-performance computing across architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is engineered to deliver a consistent, standardized and high-performance experience across nearly any certified architecture and hardware configuration. These same exacting standards and consistency are also brought to supercomputing environments, providing a predictable and reliable interface regardless of the underlying hardware.
Fugaku is the first Arm-based system to take first place on the TOP500 list, highlighting Red Hat’s commitment to the Arm ecosystem from the datacenter to the high-performance computing laboratory. Sierra, Summit and Marconi-100 all boast IBM POWER9-based infrastructure with NVIDIA GPUs; combined, these four systems produce more than 680 petaflops of processing power to fuel a broad range of scientific research applications.
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