An IBM-built computer named Blue Gene/L, deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has doubled its performance to 280.6 trillion calculations per second (teraflops). The system is used to study the US nuclear stockpile and perform other research. International Business Machines Corp. built the top three systems on the list released by the Top 500 project, an independent group of university computer scientists who release supercomputer rankings every six months.


http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/TOP10_Nov2005.pdf



This post has been edited by hiroshi: Apr 10 2006, 05:07 PM

now....if only it supports SLI...think of the framerates achievable for FEAR and ES4: OBLIVION.... or use it to do folding instead and we can find a cure for cancer/aids/etc. in no time.....

Can't wait for the processor which IBM make for the sony playstation 3 ..i think virtual reality is possible with this machine

131072 processors!!

yeah.. it's 131072 processors

wouldn't it be a pain in the arse to maintain the thing? it's HUGE!!

I think Folding@Home are crunching more data compared to bluegene. Worldwide computers are contributing to folding.

the world fastest computer will be the folding project

it's a super cluster of computers around the world, which combined speed and calculation power exceeds any super computer in the world, and has better uses for humanity too.. not for war

wow... amazing.... wish to own one

insane...even the best proc u can buy cant match with it

everyone on this world
donate 1 gig of our home CPU power

total...dunno how many gig leh?

That'll be good enough to model a person mathematically from birth till death and all the possible consequences he'll face throughout his life like a Clairvoyant, but turns out purely statistical...

If only they link up all the top 10 uber computer to perform prime numbers search, i believe that'll be pretty interesting.

sure or not 131072 processors i think more .....

imagine if all the processors are intel 830 prescott.......the whole building will melt...lolz

haha..if using intel presscott proc..that pc only can run at south pole

and we'll have more water in the seas than ever before....with inefficent power usage.

:lol super computer for gaming.Is more than enough if only just using 0.0001% of it's cpu power.280.6 Tf/s.Can use for commercial,server,gaming,multi-threading and video encoding all at the same time.

cannot imagine how fast is the proceesing speed..

but , think BACK !

i belive IBM has set up a super computer
which is as powerful as today's P4 3.0 or AMD 3000+ ... Twenty years ago ,

This post has been edited by imisu29: Apr 11 2006, 11:27 PM

i think physical limitations will occur soon imisu29, don't think it'll be that easy.

agree, thats why dualcore proc came out..