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IBM's Blue Gene/L still top dog

By Derek Sooman

On November 14, 2005, 1:56 PM

IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has kept its position as the most powerful number computer in the world. Seemingly, the machine has still not reached its maximum possible performance.

Blue Gene/L was top of the biannually produced list because in June 2005 it set a new world record performance of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.

It is installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the other Blue Gene machine is at IBM's Thomas J Watson research lab in New York state.

The Blue Gene/L machine has doubled in size since the last list was compiled and now harnesses the computational power of more than 130,000 processors.

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  1. November 14, 2005 2:11 PM
    Soul Harvester said:
    I posted this a few weeks ago
    Reply
  2. November 14, 2005 2:18 PM
    Phantasm66 said:
    Yeah, well its on bbc news today, because its still true!
    Reply
  3. November 14, 2005 2:20 PM
    Soul Harvester said:
    good enough for me!
    Reply

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