IBM BUILDS WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER
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Date: 09/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:14:33 GMT
IBM builds world's fastest supercomputer
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September 29, 2004 18:27 IST
IBM on Wednesday claimed it has built the
world's fastest supercomputer, wresting the
title from Japanese company NEC.
The new supercomputer, dubbed Blue Gene/L,
claimed to sustain speeds of 36 teraflops (36
trillion calculatons per second), surpassing
Japanese 'Earth Simulator' which has a speed of
35.86 teraflops.
There are 500 supercomputers in the world and
IBM's new system would mark the first time in
three years that the world's fastest
supercomputer is located in the United States.
"A lot of policymakers in Washington have
worried about the (Japanese) Earth Simulator as
an example of the US computer industry falling
behind," said Dave Turek, an IBM vice president
who oversees supercomputing efforts.
"But, by far, the great majority of systems on
the top 500 supercomputer list have come from
US-led companies."
The Japanese company had designed the Earth
Simulator to simulate earthquakes.
The prototype of the Blue Gene/L system,
located in Rochester, Minnesota, has 16,250
processors and takes up eight racks of space.
IBM plans to build an even larger and faster
version of the Blue Gene computer for the
Lawrence Liermore National Laboratory in
California, a project scheduled for completion
in May 2005.
Lawrence Livermore lab, built to design nuclear
weapons and work on other defence projects, has
a 'never-ending appetite' for computational
power to help model molecular and nuclear
behaviour, Turek said
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