Wednesday, September 06, 2006

New IBM supercomputer aiming for petaflop (Reuters)

The IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer is shown at the Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore California in this October 27 2005 file photo. IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the US Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1000 trillion calculations per second or one petaflop the department said on Wednesday. By comparison the BlueGene/L computer (shown) can perform a record 280.6 trillion operations per second. (Kimberly White/Reuters)Reuters - IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1000 trillion calculations per second or one petaflop the department said on Wednesday.


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