Tag archive: Gene

The BBC has reported that scientists at IBM have created a new supercomputer, nicknamed Roadrunner, that’s capable of petaflop speeds – that one thousand trillion calculation per second. What’s even more remarkable is that it was built using components made for Sony’s PS3 gaming console. The current fastest computer in the world is also made by IBM, Blue/Gene L, which runs at 478.2 teraflops (trillions of… Read More

There are desktop computers, and then there are supercomputers. And there are supercomputers, and then there is IBM’s Blue Gene/P – which should be able to run three computational laps by the time its closest opponent finishes one. IBM revealed the machine at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden on Tuesday. The Blue Gene/P is the latest in IBM’s Blue Gene line-up of supercomputers. According to… Read More

“IBM's Blue Gene/L, being assembled for the department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, performed 135.3 trillion floating point operations per second running benchmark software, the NationalNuclear Security Administration said. The result eclipses the 70.72 teraflops that a smaller version of the system achieved running the Linpack benchmark program last fall. Blue Gene, being assembled for the NNSA for simulating… Read More

More than 200 university programmers, from San Diego to Seoul, and from Wisconsin to Warsaw, have earned the right to compete at the most prestigious programming competition of its kind. Seventy-eight teams of three students each will take part in the 29th Annual World Finals of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), April 3 – 7, 2005, in Shanghai, China. And, for the first… Read More

“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… Read More

The company demonstrated a supercomputer capable of performing 2 trillion operations per second, which it claimed was based on a variation of its PowerPC technology which will be rolled out in Nintendo's forthcoming hardware. However, the system demonstrated was running on 1000 of the processors, and was roughly the size of a television. IBM highlighted the low power consumption and low heat of the individual components, suggesting… Read More