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Graph500
Rating of supercomputer systems

The Graph500 is a rating of supercomputer systems, focused on data-intensive loads. The project was announced on International Supercomputing Conference in June 2010. The first list was published at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in November 2010. New versions of the list are published twice a year. The main performance metric used to rank the supercomputers is GTEPS (giga- traversed edges per second).

Richard Murphy from Sandia National Laboratories, says that "The Graph500's goal is to promote awareness of complex data problems", instead of focusing on computer benchmarks like HPL (High Performance Linpack), which TOP500 is based on.

Despite its name, there were several hundreds of systems in the rating, growing up to 174 in June 2014.

The algorithm and implementation that won the championship is published in the paper titled "Extreme scale breadth-first search on supercomputers".

There is also list Green Graph 500, which uses same performance metric, but sorts list according to performance per Watt, like Green 500 works with TOP500 (HPL).

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Benchmark

The benchmark used in Graph500 stresses the communication subsystem of the system, instead of counting double precision floating-point.4 It is based on a breadth-first search in a large undirected graph (a model of Kronecker graph with average degree of 16). There are three computation kernels in the benchmark: the first kernel is to generate the graph and compress it into sparse structures CSR or CSC (Compressed Sparse Row/Column); the second kernel does a parallel BFS search of some random vertices (64 search iterations per run); the third kernel runs a single-source shortest paths (SSSP) computation. Six possible sizes (Scales) of graph are defined: toy (226 vertices; 17 GB of RAM), mini (229; 137 GB), small (232; 1.1 TB), medium (236; 17.6 TB), large (239; 140 TB), and huge (242; 1.1 PB of RAM).5

The reference implementation of the benchmark contains several versions:6

  • serial high-level in GNU Octave
  • serial low-level in C
  • parallel C version with usage of OpenMP
  • two versions for Cray-XMT
  • basic MPI version (with MPI-1 functions)
  • optimized MPI version (with MPI-2 one-sided communications)

The implementation strategy that have won the championship on the Japanese K computer is described in.7

Top 10 ranking

According to June 2024 release of the list, for the BFS results section, Fugaku ranks highest, but in the SSSP results section Wuhan Supercomputer ranks highest, then Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II, then Fugaku; table shows for BFS results:8

RankCountrySiteMachine (architecture)Number of nodesNumber of coresProblem scaleGTEPS
1 JapanRIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational ScienceSupercomputer Fugaku (Fujitsu A64FX)152064729907242166029
2 ChinaWuhanKunpeng 920+Tesla A100252699955241115357.6
3 USAFrontierHPE Cray EX235a924887301124029654.6
4 ChinaPengcheng LabPengcheng Cloudbrain-II (Kunpeng 920+Ascend 910)488936964025242.9
5 USADOE/SC/Argonne National LaboratoryHPE Cray EX - Intel Exascale Compute Blade4096255918084024250.2
6 ChinaNational Supercomputing Center in WuxiSunway TaihuLight (Sunway MPP)40768105996804023755.7

Spain (Barcelona), has a new supercomputer MareNostrum 5 ACC, ranked 8th.

2022

According to November 2022 release of the list:9

RankCountrySiteMachine (architecture)Number of nodesNumber of coresProblem scaleGTEPS
1 JapanRIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational ScienceSupercomputer Fugaku (Fujitsu A64FX)158976763084841102955
2 ChinaPengcheng LabPengcheng Cloudbrain-II (Kunpeng 920+Ascend 910)488936964025242.9
3 ChinaNational Supercomputing Center in WuxiSunway TaihuLight (Sunway MPP)40768105996804023755.7
4 JapanInformation Technology Center, University of TokyoWisteria/BDEC-01 (PRIMEHPC FX1000)76803686403716118
5 JapanJapan Aerospace Exploration AgencyTOKI-SORA (PRIMEHPC FX1000)57602764803610813
6 EUEuroHPC/CSCLUMI-C (HPE Cray EX)1492190976388467.71
7 USOak Ridge National LaboratoryOLCF Summit (IBM POWER9)204886016407665.7
8 GermanyLeibniz RechenzentrumSuperMUC-NG (ThinkSystem SD530 Xeon Platinum 8174 24C 3.1GHz Intel Omni-Path)4096196608396279.47
9 GermanyZuse Institute BerlinLise (Intel Omni-Path)1270121920385423.94
10 ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Big Data Technology and SystemDepGraph Supernode (DepGraph (+GPU Tesla A100))1128334623.379

2020

Arm-based Fugaku took the top spot of the list.10

2016

According to June 2016 release of the list:11

RankSiteMachine (architecture)Number of nodesNumber of coresProblem scaleGTEPS
1Riken Advanced Institute for Computational ScienceK computer (Fujitsu custom)829446635524038621.4
2National Supercomputing Center in WuxiSunway TaihuLight (NRCPC - Sunway MPP)40768105996804023755.7
3Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryIBM Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q)9830415728644123751
4Argonne National LaboratoryIBM Mira (Blue Gene/Q)491527864324014982
5Forschungszentrum JülichJUQUEEN (Blue Gene/Q)16384262144385848
6CINECAFermi (Blue Gene/Q)8192131072372567
7Changsha, ChinaTianhe-2 (NUDT custom)8192196608362061.48
8CNRS/IDRIS-GENCITuring (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
8Science and Technology Facilities Council – Daresbury LaboratoryBlue Joule (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
8University of EdinburghDIRAC (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
8EDF R&DZumbrota (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
8Victorian Life Sciences Computation InitiativeAvoca (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427

2014

According to June 2014 release of the list:12

RankSiteMachine (architecture)Number of nodesNumber of coresProblem scaleGTEPS
1RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational ScienceK computer (Fujitsu custom)655365242884017977.1
2Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryIBM Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q)6553610485764016599
3Argonne National LaboratoryIBM Mira (Blue Gene/Q)491527864324014328
4Forschungszentrum JülichJUQUEEN (Blue Gene/Q)16384262144385848
5CINECAFermi (Blue Gene/Q)8192131072372567
6Changsha, ChinaTianhe-2 (NUDT custom)8192196608362061.48
7CNRS/IDRIS-GENCITuring (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury LaboratoryBlue Joule (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7University of EdinburghDIRAC (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7EDF R&DZumbrota (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7Victorian Life Sciences Computation InitiativeAvoca (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427

2013

According to June 2013 release of the list:13

RankSiteMachine (architecture)Number of nodesNumber of coresProblem scaleGTEPS
1Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryIBM Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q)6553610485764015363
2Argonne National LaboratoryIBM Mira (Blue Gene/Q)491527864324014328
3Forschungszentrum JülichJUQUEEN (Blue Gene/Q)16384262144385848
4RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational ScienceK computer (Fujitsu custom)65536524288405524.12
5CINECAFermi (Blue Gene/Q)8192131072372567
6Changsha, ChinaTianhe-2 (NUDT custom)8192196608362061.48
7CNRS/IDRIS-GENCITuring (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury LaboratoryBlue Joule (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7University of EdinburghDIRAC (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7EDF R&DZumbrota (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427
7Victorian Life Sciences Computation InitiativeAvoca (Blue Gene/Q)409665536361427

See also

References

  1. The Exascale Report (March 15, 2012). "The Case for the Graph 500 – Really Fast or Really Productive? Pick One". Inside HPC. http://insidehpc.com/2012/03/15/the-case-for-the-graph-500-really-fast-or-really-productive-pick-one/

  2. "June 2014 | Graph 500". Archived from the original on June 28, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140628045351/http://www.graph500.org/results_jun_2014

  3. Ueno, Koji; Suzumura, Toyotaro; Maruyama, Naoya; Fujisawa, Katsuki; Matsuoka, Satoshi (2016). "Extreme scale breadth-first search on supercomputers". 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). pp. 1040–1047. doi:10.1109/BigData.2016.7840705. ISBN 978-1-4673-9005-7. S2CID 8680200. 978-1-4673-9005-7

  4. The Exascale Report (March 15, 2012). "The Case for the Graph 500 – Really Fast or Really Productive? Pick One". Inside HPC. http://insidehpc.com/2012/03/15/the-case-for-the-graph-500-really-fast-or-really-productive-pick-one/

  5. Performance Evaluation of Graph500 on Large-Scale Distributed Environment // IEEE IISWC 2011, Austin, TX; presentation https://sites.google.com/site/tokyotechsuzumuralab/publication/Graph500-IISWC2011-camera-ready.pdf?attredirects=0

  6. "Graph500: адекватный рейтинг" (in Russian). Open Systems #1 2011. http://www.osp.ru/os/2011/01/13006961/

  7. Ueno, K.; Suzumura, T.; Maruyama, N.; Fujisawa, K.; Matsuoka, S. (December 1, 2016). "Extreme scale breadth-first search on supercomputers". 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). pp. 1040–1047. doi:10.1109/BigData.2016.7840705. ISBN 978-1-4673-9005-7. S2CID 8680200. 978-1-4673-9005-7

  8. "Complete Results - Graph 500". 2024. Retrieved July 20, 2024. https://graph500.org/?page_id=238

  9. "November 2022; Graph 500". June 14, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2022. https://graph500.org/?page_id=238

  10. "Fujitsu and RIKEN Take First Place in Graph500 Ranking with Supercomputer Fugaku". HPCwire. June 23, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2020. https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/fujitsu-and-riken-take-first-place-in-graph500-ranking-with-supercomputer-fugaku/

  11. "June 2016 | Graph 500". Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624043849/http://www.graph500.org/results_jun_2016

  12. "June 2014 | Graph 500". Archived from the original on June 28, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140628045351/http://www.graph500.org/results_jun_2014

  13. "June 2013 | Graph 500". Archived from the original on June 21, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130621233406/http://www.graph500.org/results_jun_2013