Re: newest supercomputer

hon123456 wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Last night, I see the TV news reporting that a New
> supercomputer was developed (by IBM?) runinng Linux. It is named like
> "???sea" . I cannot find the information in Web. Can u suggest me
> something about that, like the supercomputer's name and website? Thanks.

I'm not sure what machine you mean, but it's probably...

Blue Gene is IBM's product name for their latest supercomputer. The
latest LINPACK number for the biggest Blue Gene/L system thus far is
280.6 teraflops, the fastest system in the world by a wide margin.

Blue Gene:
http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene

IBM's current system uses nodes with dual PowerPC 440 CPUs. The next
system (Blue Gene/C) will use IBM's SIMD Cell processor as the CPU.

The Cell CPU:
http://www.research.ibm.com/cell/
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars

ASCI (Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative) is the Defense
department designation for the research/funding source that underwrote
much of Blue Gene's development.

ASCI:
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/

Randy

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