Blue Gene – Worlds fastest supercomputer
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004According to newratings.com: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM.NYS) has claimed to have developed the world’s fastest supercomputer.
The global computer giant said today that its still-unfinished Blue Gene/L System supercomputer is eight times faster and consumed 28 times less power per computation than the current fastest supercomputers. IBM said that its Blue Gene supercomputer reached a peak speed of 36.01 teraflops (36.1 trillion calculations per second), exceeding the peak performance of 35.86 teraflops for the current fastest supercomputer, Earth Simulator Center, developed by the Japanese company, NEC Corporation. Moreover, the size of IBM’s Blue Gene is about 100 times smaller than the Earth Simulator.
