IBM’s supercomputer announced!

June 28th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under
IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second, or 3 petaflops, a possible record. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than 1 petaflop in real-world situations.

Blue Gene/P marks a significant milestone in computing. Last November, the Blue Gene/L was ranked as the most powerful computer on the planet: it topped out at 280 teraflops, or 280 trillion operations a second during continuous operation.

Put another way, a Blue Gene/P operating at a petaflop is performing more operations than a 1.5-mile-high (2.4km) stack of laptops.
Very cool and very powerful, it’s always great to see what can be achieved with the technology, and this IBM supercomputer sounds fantastic, the zdnet article talks all about it, and the research.ibm.com site has great pictures of it.
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