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IBM innovating the supercomputer platform
February 9, 2009 (Computerworld) The U.S. government has awarded IBM a contract to build a supercomputer capable of performing at 20 petaflops, which is more powerful than all of the systems on today’s Top500 supercomputer list combined.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Nuclear researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy will use the planned Sequoia system, to be built in IBM’s plant in Rochester, Minn.
The fastest systems today perform at a little over 1 petaflop, or 1 thousand trillion floating-point operations per second. The single-petaflop barrier was passed last May by IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer.
It’s always great to see how we can continue to improve performance, what new possibilities and opportunities we can create through hpc and grid technologies.
At the same time, it’s aways cool to see what range of technologies are being used to achieve this, 10GB Ethernet? PowerPC or Cell/B.E etc. Granted the application needs to be coded to gain the most benefits from the platform, but then that’s always going to be the case, do check out the article. I wonder if this is based on any paticular technology like their BladeCenter products?
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