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AlmaLinux and the Top 500 HPC Supercomputers

The Top500 Supercomputers list released for the June 2022 update came out a short while ago and some community members spotted a familiar name on the list--AlmaLinux! CentOS was such a large part of the HPC community and AlmaLinux is continuing that tradition. We've been working closely with many in the HPC space including software and hardware vendors, super computer operators and researchers to make sure things continue to run smoothly for those in the HPC space looking for their next steps and providing a drop-in replacement.

We'd like to give a special thank you to our friends at MEGWARE for their support on these deployments.

AlmaLinux Installations List in Top500:

  • #184 "Alex" at Universitaet Erlangen - Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen, Germany - AMD EPYC™ 7713 (Milan) with NVIDIA A100 HGX - MEGWARE NF5488A5 - Running AlmaLinux 8.5 - System's Home Page

  • #301 "VSC-5" at Vienna Scientific Cluster, Austria - AMD EPYC™ 7713 (Milan) - MEGWARE SlideSX®-LC - Running AlmaLinux 8.5 - System's Home Page

  • #323 "Fritz" at Universitaet Erlangen - Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen, Germany - Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8360Y Processor (Ice Lake) - MEGWARE Server System D50TNP Family - Running AlmaLinux 8.5 - System's Home Page

  • #339 "HSUper" at Helmut-Schmidt-Universitaet/Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany - Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8360Y Processor (Ice Lake) - MEGWARE Server System D50TNP Family - Running AlmaLinux 8.5 - System's Home Page

The 184th ranked system also ranks 16th in the Green500 which currently makes it the most energy-efficient HPC system in Germany.

AlmaLinux is proud to be powering scientific research all over the world. It is part of the mission we set out to accomplish, not merely an OS--a community and platform for building the future together.

Stay tuned for more exciting HPC news, including more systems coming soon. If you'd like to help out please join us on The AlmaLinux Community Chat, #almalinux on libera.chat, Twitter or Reddit.

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