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Home  News IBM’s Blue Gene/L is the Fastest Supercomputer in the World
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IBM’s Blue Gene/L is the Fastest Supercomputer in the World |
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9.11.2004. |
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IBM has brought the title of the world's fastest supercomputer back to the United States for the first time in three years.
IBM's still incomplete Blue Gene/L system was officially named the fastest in the world by the Top500 project, an independent group of university computer scientists who release supercomputer rankings twice a year. The system was clocked at 70.72 trillion calculations per second, almost double the performance of the reigning leader - Japan's Earth Simulator, which can sustain 35.86 trillion calculations a second. Blue Gene/L will be installed next year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the University of California, where it will be used to study the nation's nuclear stockpile and perform other research. Supercomputer at NASA 's Ames Research Center was ranked second in the world, turning 51.87 trillion calculations a second. Both Blue Gene/L, which will use 130,000 processors, and the NASA computer, which uses 10,240 processors, were less expensive and used processors very similar to those commercially available. The cost of IBM's machine is estimated at $US100 million, while the NASA computer cost $US50 million, compared to at least $US250 million for Earth Simulator.
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