IBM Supercomputer Again Claims Record

IBM's $100 million supercomputer has once again claimed an unofficial performance record - that's twice in a month for Big Blue.

“IBM Corp.’s still-incomplete Blue Gene/L system, which will be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieved a sustained performance of 70.72 trillion calculations per second using a standard test program, the Department of Energy said Thursday.

The world’s current official leader, Japan’s Earth Simulator, can sustain 35.86 trillion calculations per second using the same software. “

Make us proud IBM!

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