"A 33,000 processor prototype of Blue Gene/L, assembled by IBM last November was ranked the fastest computer on the planet on the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. IBM's prototype was benchmarked at 70.72 trillion calculations per second, or teraflops, using the Linpack benchmark, which puts the system through a series of mathematical calculations.
Lawrence Livermore's new system is expected to be capable of approximately twice that, making it nearly three times as powerful as the next system on the list, NASA's 10,240-processor "Columbia" supercomputer. Columbia has been benchmarked at 51.87 teraflops. Goldstone declined to comment on the Livermore system's benchmark performance.
The 32,000 node Blue Gene/L represents the second stage of a three-part build-out of the $100 million supercomputer that is expected to be completed by June. When fully assembled, it will have a theoretical peak performance of 360 teraflops. "
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Lawrence Livermore's new system is expected to be capable of approximately twice that, making it nearly three times as powerful as the next system on the list, NASA's 10,240-processor "Columbia" supercomputer. Columbia has been benchmarked at 51.87 teraflops. Goldstone declined to comment on the Livermore system's benchmark performance.
The 32,000 node Blue Gene/L represents the second stage of a three-part build-out of the $100 million supercomputer that is expected to be completed by June. When fully assembled, it will have a theoretical peak performance of 360 teraflops. "
Read the techworld.com article here.
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