Analysis of "Overview of recent supercomputers"

The report "Overview of recent Supercomputers - 2002" by Aad van der Steen is available from Primeur/EnterTheGrid in two formats:

1. In XML
2. Enriched with information from other information sources in PDF

The raw XML-file is available from the link: http://www.hoise.com/primeur/analysis/ors/database/manual.xml (Can take some time to download.) This file includes a number of other ones. Modern browsers that recognise XML may automatically include these files. If you go to the directory: http://www.hoise.com/primeur/analysis/ors/database/ You can see the individual files. These are the individual report chapters and, in the include directory, the description of the systems and processors in a special developed XML-format.

The XML format allows us to easily, and seamlessly integrate other supercomputer information into the report, creating an enriched version. To this end we developed several XSLT-templates. We use XSL-FO as an intermediate format to create a PDF file: http://www.hoise.com/primeur/analysis/ors/manuals/manual.pdf (900 Kbyte)

The XML version is combined with information from other supercomputing information sources that are also available in XML. This way, the report has been augmented with:

• For each system, all machines in the current TOP500 list of supercomputers are listed.
• A summary table has been added. The average age of system architectures is calculated
• A description from the company, taken from the EnterTheGrid catalogue has been added.

The original report is available from: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~steen/web02/overview02.html.