I am amazed that no matter what national labs or universities do, IBM still owns the Top 500 space. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time walking the aisles of HPC data centers and studying what components people are using, and yet every few months, the HPC Top 500 still has IBM equipment in the Top 10 every time. I know that the Rackable and Terascala folks would love to bust into that group. I look forward to seeing some of the young cluster players come to light in the near future. In the meantime, my hat of to IBM who continues to astound me with continued excellence.

p.s. It was a BlueGene cluster at NCAR in Colorado that was able to predict the path of Katrina, even though no one listened.