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Based in Canberra, Australia's newest supercomputer named Gadi has placesd 25th in the world in the latest Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers after achieving impressive benchmark results.

Eight of the top 10 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list use Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia Mellanox InifiniBand networking, or both. Nvidia used the occasion to make several other announcements.

As usual, Microsoft is using Build, its annual event for developers, to make multiple announcements. Here are some of the highlights.

A new 78-node cluster will be delivered and installed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth in support of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope. The MWA is one of the many precursor projects being developed as part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a joint venture between Australia and South Africa with input from radio astronomers located around the world.

GPU vendor Nvidia has announced that its AI and HPC software will be available for Arm-based computers by the end of 2019.

Graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia has further boosted its credentials in the high performance computing space with the latest Top500 list showing that the company's GPUs power 127 of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers.

Chinese supercomputers have retained the two top spots in the TOP500 list, a six-monthly ranking of supercomputers around the world.

The world has a brand new number one supercomputer and it is thrice as fast as the previous leader.

Climate variations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans will drive the planet's climate in 2012.

For the first time ever, the Top Ten supercomputer list remains unchanged from the previous list.  Some have improved their overall performance, but none changed positions.

Not since the Earth Simulator was dethroned in 2004 has Japan held the top position in the Top500 supercomputer list.

As expected, Chinese supercomputers have taken the first and third places in the latest list of the world's top supercomputers and only five of the top ten are from USA.  Linux continues to reign supreme.

Currently ranked second in the Top500 Supercomputers, China's Nebulae is about to receive a reappraisal and is expected to be crowned number one in November's list.  But Nebulae's pre-eminence will be short-lived.  Current number one Jaguar is about to undergo an upgrade and there is a new super-supercomputer in the wings, with performance nearly ten times that of Jaguar and Nebulae.

Updated: Hot on the heels of yesterday's Top500 supercomputer announcement comes a reminder that Australia is a significant player in the field with the only NVidia CUDA research centre in the southern hemisphere.

Announced earlier today, the 35th list of the top 500 supercomputers contains few surprises, just that Linux has almost total domination of the list.