Technology1.11.2005
Supercomputer doubles own record
It reached 280.6 teraflops – 280.6 trillion calculations a second – the equivalent of each person in the world with a handheld calculator taking decades to do the same calculations Blue Gene is now able to do every second.
The IBM machine, unveiled by Linton F Brooks from the National Nuclear Security Administration at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last Friday, officially became the most powerful computer on the planet in June.
The completed Blue Gene/L joins another supercomputing team-mate, called ASC Purple, to get to work on safeguarding the US’s nuclear stockpile. Purple can do 100 teraflops while it carries out simulations of nuclear weapons performance.
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