Wednesday, February 9, 2011

An IBM supercomputer of 10 PFLOPS

IBM has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy had ordered a 10-petaflops supercomputer. For advancing research on the development of new batteries, or global warming, the BlueGene / Q nicknamed Mira will be operational by 2012. It should be 20 times faster Intrepid, the supercomputer used today by the U.S.

laboratories of the Department of Energy that are located in Chicago. It will also be twice as fast as the Tianhe-1A fastest supercomputer today (4.7 PFLOPS) (cf. "The first supercomputer in the world is Chinese). It will employ a total of 750,000 cores.

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