Dresden's Capella supercomputer ranks among the fastest and most eco-friendly in the global arena.

The TOP500, a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, is published twice a year by an international consortium led by Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Erich Strohmaier (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and Martin Meuer (ISC Group). The list is presented at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and the Supercomputing Conference (SC).

Current Standing of Capella (TU Dresden)

As of December 2023, the latest standing of Capella at the Center for Information Services and High-Performance Computing (ZIH) of the Technical University of Dresden can be found on the official TOP500 list. However, due to my current knowledge ending in December 2023, I cannot disclose its ranking beyond this date as the November rankings for 2024 and 2025 have not yet been released.

Previous Rankings

Capella, known as the Leibniz-Rechencluster (LRZ) system in Germany, last appeared in the TOP500 November edition not among the top 500. Despite this, the Technical University of Dresden possesses high-performance systems for academic use, although they are not typically listed among the world's fastest 500.

Finding the Latest Ranking

For the most current information, please visit the TOP500 website (https://www.top500.org). There, you can search for "Capella" or "TU Dresden" to see if the supercomputer appears in the latest November edition.

Additional Information

In addition to the TOP500 list, Capella also ranks in the Green500 list, which ranks systems based on their performance efficiency, measured in Gigaflops/Watt. Capella is one of the most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, delivering a high amount of computing power per watt of consumed electrical power. It ranks fifth in the Green500 list.

Capella is used in various areas of research, including medical research and Earth system science. In medical research, machine learning methods are used for cancer diagnosis and the development of new medicines. One example of a European language model training use case for Capella is the OpenGPT-X project.

Capella ranks 51st in the latest list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. In Germany, Capella ranks third in terms of supercomputing power. It is primarily used in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis.

Capella is also used in Earth system science for gaining new insights into natural disasters and climate change from Earth observation data. Training and improving European language models is a significant use case for Capella, such as in the OpenGPT-X project. A human would need 1.2 billion years to perform the same number of calculations as Capella does in one second.

The Green500 list provides an overview of current trends in energy efficiency for supercomputers. Other application areas of Capella with high performance and memory requirements include medical research.

For those interested in staying updated on Capella's rankings, it is recommended to regularly check the TOP500 website (https://www.top500.org).