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IBM builds 280 Teraflop supercomputer

By Justin Mann

On October 28, 2005, 11:24 AM

After being ousted from the top notch just a few months ago, IBM has set a new world record for computing power with the improved Blue Gene/L. Also called Big Blue, it's been their token of computing power for many years, and now with 65,536 processors is capable of more than 280 Teraflops. That more than doubles the previous series power and puts all other competetion (feasible or not) in the dust, at least temporarily. Don't expect to see these at your corner PC store, because with a price tag of $290 Million for that and their “lower” 100 Teraflops speed model, ASC Purple, only a few will have access to such machines.

The article goes into the history of Blue Gene and talks a bit about supercomputing as well as some uses for the computational beasts. It's an interesting read for big PC nuts.

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  1. October 28, 2005 2:50 PM
    fiziks said:
    i think i'll save my pocket change for this one
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  2. October 28, 2005 3:25 PM
    Phantasm66 said:
    You'll probably need it to run the next version of Windows.
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  3. October 29, 2005 2:49 PM
    atk spade said:
    [b]Originally posted by Phantasm66:[/b][quote]You'll probably need it to run the next version of Windows.[/quote]so true
    Reply
  4. October 29, 2005 9:45 PM
    CrossFire851 said:
    Ha.. you surley will
    Reply
  5. October 29, 2005 11:41 PM
    fiziks said:
    all you need is like 512 mb of ram and a 64 bit processor
    Reply
  6. October 29, 2005 11:44 PM
    fiziks said:
    or get the 32 bit version consisting of less features (of course) and run it on a 32 bit processor
    Reply

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