Blue Gene

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The IBM Blue Gene is currently the world’s most powerful supercomputer. This supplanted NEC’s Earth Simulator past record this past November. The Earth Simulator is capable of 35.86 teraflops, while the Blue Gene is capable of an astounding 70.72 teraflops. One teraflop equals one trillion mathematical operations per second. Wrap your mind around that one. But what is equally amazing is that isn’t the top computational power of the Blue Gene system. The Blue Gene L system will be a scalable supercomputing architecture that will increase the computational power to 360 teraflops. “Blue Gene/L will likely have more processing power than today’s 18 fastest supercomputers combined when complete,” said Tilak Agerwala, vice president, systems, IBM Research. Blue Gene will be used to tackle issues ranging from protein folding, stellar anomalies, and weather modeling. The Blue Gene system takes 10 times less space to house and consume three times less power than conventional super computers. Research will be changed forever.

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