TOPS AGAIN IN TOP500.
The article reports that IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene/L was named the world's fastest supercomputer. The honor is Blue Gene's fifth appearance on the Top500 list, which measures the speed and performance of the world's supercomputers twice a year. The computer, which is used at the Lawrence Livermore Natio...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 2; p. 10 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Feb2007
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| Sumario: | The article reports that IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene/L was named the world's fastest supercomputer. The honor is Blue Gene's fifth appearance on the Top500 list, which measures the speed and performance of the world's supercomputers twice a year. The computer, which is used at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to simulate the testing of the United States' nuclear weapons stockpile, has 131,072 processors and a sustained performance of 280.6 teraflops. The full list can be found at http://top500.org/lists/2006/11. |
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