IBM No 1 in Top 500
p2pnet.net News:- An IBM supercomputing system is the world’s most powerful, says TOP500.
“IBM’s Blue Gene/L tops the list with a sustained performance of 136.8 Teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second,” says the company.
“The system developed with IBM’s primary partner, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, is being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California and is planned to grow to a 360 Teraflop Blue Gene/L supercomputer when completed this summer.”
The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice a year, it lists sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems.
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IBM – IBM Dominates Global Supercomputing, June 23, 2005
June 23rd, 2005 at 4:55 pm
Man I bet that thing makes a great Quake server.
June 23rd, 2005 at 5:49 pm
lol
June 23rd, 2005 at 7:17 pm
Actually, it does.
We had to simulate an extra 165,000 simultaneous Quake players to put any kind of compute load on the thing at all. Took about a minute and a half for all the simulated players to kill themselves, so the simulation wasn’t that great. We, ah, called it the “interactive benchmark.”
Bandwidth isn’t exactly an issue, not with Blue Gene able to push 250+ gigabit ethernet cables flat out, at the same time. The problem is that there just aren’t enough Quake players available on the planet to give the thing a decent workout.
Plenty of compute power for some VERY realistic rendering…
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:51 pm
i tell you america is finished….china is about to take over…
there is no manufacturing in america anymore…
“IBM leads the list with 259 of the 500 entries. HP is second with 131, followed by SGI( 24 ), Dell ( 21 ) and Cray ( 16 )”
it’s obviously a cia plot….
lefty
June 24th, 2005 at 4:15 am
Wow that thing could probly emulate a 3d card in software faster than the real thing.
I’d hate to be paying the power bill tho ;o)