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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...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 2; p. 10
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2007
Subjects:
International Business Machines Corp.
Supercomputers
IBM computers
Parallel processing
High performance computing
Computers
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.