IBM Leaves Behind IBM: Blue Gene/L Sets Records

Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 11/02/2005 | 10:27 AM ]

For many years IBM has been the leading manufacturer of mainframes, or supercomputers. The most famous of IBM’s supercomputers today is the Blue Gene/L.

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Blue Gene/L became famous long before all of its parts were put together. Even in the half-finished stage, this supercomputer showed unmatched performance level almost a year ago, and topped the supercomputers chart.

On October 27^th IBM has reported that Blue Gene/L was completed and the final parts have been installed. IBM also stated that Blue Gene/L once again became the top-ranked supercomputer on the Top500 supercomputing list with a 280.6 -teraflop speed.

“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer Thursday and announced it’s broken its own record again for the world’s fastest supercomputer.

The 65,536-processor machine can sustain 280.6 trillion calculations per second, called 280.6 teraflops. That’s the top end of the range IBM forecast and more than twice the previous Blue Gene/L record of 136.8 teraflops, set when only half the machine was installed,” reports CNET News.com.

• CNET News.com: Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record.