top500

Data Visualization & Analysis of the latest top500 dataset using Python and Jupyter notebook.

Latest Dataset: November 2024

Machine Learning

Correlation between Theoretical Peak Performance and Computer Architecture

Key Findings and Observations

• Power (kw) and total cores show strong positive correlations indicating that power consumption and more cores generally lead to higher performance.

• Cores per socket, Processor Speed (mhz) and CPU Type show relatively weaker positive correlations suggesting that cores per socket, CPU type, and processor clock speed are not significant drivers or predictors of supercomputer performance in modern systems.

Top500 Visualizations & Charts

Power vs Performance

Interactive Hover Plot

Non-interactive Plot

Trends

2023 -> June 2024

• AMD CPU Share now 31%, up from 24% last year (2023)
• 2% increase in CPU+GPU machines from 2023
• 88.6% of GPUs still NVIDIA

2022 -> 2023

• 28 new machines with AMD CPUs replace 28 machines with Intel CPUs
• 17 new CPU + GPU Machines
• 90% of GPUs are NVIDIA