News Glimpse of New Supercomputer (Blue Gene) performance

From CNet:

IBM reveals the first indication of the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Friday, a machine about the size of a dishwasher that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second.

The performance is enough to make the machine the world's 73rd fastest supercomputer, according to a ranking of the top 500 to be released Sunday. By the time IBM has upgraded the box's 1,024 processors and linked it with another 127 identical systems in 2005, Big Blue IBM hopes to take the top spot.

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