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12.02.09

Monster Mainframes Battle for Bragging Rights

The world's fastest supercomputer is about to get even faster. Can anyone outdo Blue Gene/L?
By Joshua Tompkins Posted 05.04.2005 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

The quest to build the world´s most potent supercomputer is like a never-ending Olympic event, with the pride of entire nations at stake. This summer, the U.S. will tighten its grip on the gold when engineers at the Department of Energy´s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory boost the speed of IBM´s reigning champion Blue Gene/L to an anticipated 270 teraflops-a floor-shaking 270 trillion calculations per second.

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