The Netherlands with 14 machines look like having made a big jump. SARA in Amsterdam has 8 SGI 3000 machines with 128 processors. No, it are the building blocks of the new Dutch national research supercomputer. They will be connected in the near future to one machine with a performance in the TOP500 range, but for the time being they are just separate machines. As the following table shows, the UK and Germany are dominating Europe's TOP10 with 4 machines each.
Weather is the dominant application in the upper region.
SUN is second with 29 in Europe and Cray is third with 17 supercomputers. The CLIC PIII at the Technische Universitaet Chemnitz Chemnitz with 528 processors and the 196 processor Kepler PIII 650 MHz at the Universitaet Tuebingen Tuebingen, both in Germany. For the TOP500 list in XML and background articles on the most recent TOP500 list, check in at Primeur Analysis section.