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IBM enters the era of the petaflops
:: 27 June, 2007
At Dresden, IBM must present Blue Gene/P. Its new super calculator would reach a power of 3 petaflops.
At the time of International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), which is held in Dresden (Germany) of the 26 at June 29, 2007, IBM will reveal Blue Gene/P, successor of Blue Gene/L. This new supercomputer will make it possible to reach a power of 3 petaflops, that is to say 3 million billion operations a second. Blue Gene/L, which held the preceding record, “reached a maximum” with 280 teraflops (evening 280.000 billion operations a second). Such powers are used in particular at ends of simulations of models, in particular as regards weather forecasting or nuclear research.
Regarded as the most powerful calculator of planet according to the Top500 list published in November 2006, Blue Gene/L should in all logic yield its place to its successor at the time of the new list which will be published at the time of the ISC. In addition to the first four places of the classification, the IBM calculators occupy 46 positions in the classification of the first 100 most powerful computers of the world. The arrival of Blue Gene/P will reinforce its position in the field of super the calculators.
450 PowerPC hearts
The chip Blue Gene/P is made up of 450 PowerPC hearts given rhythm with 850 MHz each one. A chart integrating 32 chips Blue Gene/P reaches the power of 435 billion operations a second. One needs a total of 294.912 chips to reach the pétaflops and 884.736 to obtain the 3 pétaflops announced. What results in the assembly of 216 racks connected into cluster by a communication network high performance into optical fibre.
The national laboratory Argone of the department to the energy of gouverment American (U.S. Department of Energy' S National Argonne Laboratory) will deploy the first model Blue Gene/P in the United States in the current of the year. The super calculator of IBM should also be adopted by max Planck Society and the research center Julich in Germany at the end of the year.
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IBM researcher Shawn Hall inspects a new Blue Gene/P supercomputer. The IBM system will be capable of up to three thousand trillion calculations per second.
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