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June 27, 2007, 12:36 PM ET
IBM Unleashes a More-Powerful BlueGene
The ongoing arms race among supercomputing manufacturers seems to be heating up.
Sun Microsystems made headlines yesterday by announcing that it would build the world’s most powerful supercomputer — a massive machine running at 504 teraflops — at the University of Texas at Austin.
But it hasn’t taken long for IBM, whose BlueGene/L is currently the world’s fastest computer, to fire back. The company says it has developed a new machine, called BlueGene/P, that can break the petaflop barrier. In other words, the computer will be able to perform more than one quadrillion operations in a second.
IBM is already planning to install the powerful new machines at several research institutions, CNET News reports. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory will be first in line, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook is expected to get a BlueGene/P of its own shortly thereafter. —Brock Read
Categories: Research
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