Wednesday, September 29, 2004

BlueGene/L is #1

Today, IBM unveiled the new leader in the fastest supercomputer race. BlueGene/L can perform 36 teraflops (1012 floating-point operations per second). This surpassed the mark set by Japan's Earth Simulator built by NEC (which achieved 35.86 teraflops). The prototype BlueGene/L is powered by 16,000 IBM PowerPC chips. While the margin over the Earth Simulator is small, BlueGene/L is also a much smaller and more efficient design. The full Blue Gene/L machine that's being built for Lawrence Livermore will have a peak speed of 360 teraflops. It's scheduled to be completed next year.
posted by Bob at 9/29/2004 06:00:00 AM  | | digg | del.icio.us | reddit