NASA’s Modular Electra Supercomputer Rises to 11th in U.S. in HPCG Ranking
The Electra supercomputer, NASA’s first modular system, rose to 11th place in the U.S. and 34th in the world on the latest High Performance Computing Gradient (HPCG) benchmark list, compared to 12th in the U.S. and 46th worldwide in November 2016. Electra and the Pleiades supercomputer (5th in the U.S. and 11th worldwide on the current HPCG list) both operate at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. HPCG results were revealed on November 14th at SC17.
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