IBM Blue Genes tops list of fastest supercomputers
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Armonk-based IBM Corp.’s Blue Gene/L has kept its No. 1 spot on a respected ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the fourth year in a row. IBM computers made up 42 percent of the computational power on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list, compiled by scientists in Tennessee and Germany and published today.
IBM has six of the world’s top 10 systems, including four Blue Gene supercomputers. Blue Gene/L, installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, is capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.
This year, two new IBM Blue Gene supercomputers entered the top 10: New York Blue, at the New York Center for Computational Science in Stony Brook; and the Blue Gene system at the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
IBM’s Blue Gene system in Yorktown Heights at the Watson research lab is also in the top 10 and can perform 91.29 trillion calculations per second. The entire list can be viewed at www.top500.org.
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