IBM to show its new fastest supercomputer today - BlueGene/P

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sladesurfer

Discussion Starter · Jun 27, 2007

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IBM said it developed a system that can reach the latest holy grail of supercomputing - it has designed a supercomputer that can surpass a sustained performance of one quadrillion operations per second, also known as a petaflop. The new supercomputer, called BlueGene/P, is expected to be introduced today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany

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IBM said it has received an order from Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., which will deploy the first BlueGene/P later this year. IBM also said the Max Planck Society and Forschungszentrum Julich plan to install BlueGene/P systems in late 2007. Forschungszentrum Julich researchers in Germany will use the system in areas such as particle physics and nanotechnology.

Source: http://www.legitreviews.com/news/3647/

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xMaverickx

· #2 · Jun 27, 2007

Wow...Awesome.

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iampoor

· #3 · Jun 27, 2007

Cool Its ridiculous how powerful these have gotton

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· #4 · Jun 27, 2007

WOW, Imagine what you could do with that

Ross_uk

· #5 · Jun 27, 2007

how fast you reckon its 1meg superpi is lol, good news

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jonny1989

· #6 · Jun 27, 2007

IBM makes some good stuff,to bad they dont sell to comman people like use.I would love to see an IBM chip go up agenst and AMD or intel.

ItsBobtista

· #7 · Jun 27, 2007

Pfft, my AMD Athlon64 3200+ can do FOUR petaflops per NANOSECOND...

Axon

· #8 · Jun 27, 2007

Get that thing folding for OCN

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Ando

· #9 · Jun 28, 2007

^^ Thats what I was thinking.

imagen a farm of them!!!!

Licht

· #10 · Jun 28, 2007

IBM could destroy AMD and Intel if they entered the CPU Market with Nvidia as their partner to make the boards and such. Might need a li... LOT of help making it run windows though. I'm pretty sure super computers don't run windows anyways, maybe they do.

CL3P20

· #11 · Jun 28, 2007

What the french..toast? Peta flop..? Geepers tawts fast.

johonm333

· #12 · Jun 28, 2007

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Pfft, my AMD Athlon64 3200+ can do FOUR petaflops per NANOSECOND...

if by nanosecond you mean every 5 years then yea

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H3||scr3am

· #13 · Jun 28, 2007

if it folded 24/7 it could challenge the entire PS3 folding farm...

MGX1016

· #14 · Jun 28, 2007

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if it folded 24/7 it could challenge the entire PS3 folding farm...

Lol! I don't think the PS3 would be much competition

Anyway I am thinking, IBM buys out AMD and sells ATi, they can make some awesome 64bit CPU's. 32bit too..

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Licht

· #15 · Jun 28, 2007

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if it folded 24/7 it could challenge the entire PS3 folding farm...

More like every other team combined... it might lose but not by much i bet.

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Lol! I don't think the PS3 would be much competition

Anyway I am thinking, IBM buys out AMD and sells ATi, they can make some awesome 64bit CPU's. 32bit too..

32Bit CPU are useless now since 64Bit CPU can run 64Bit and 32Bit operating systems and software. AMD's CPU probably don't work in a way you could combine the two technologies easily. Since they already have ATI it would be more profitable to keep it. Especially since it would help in fusion which is IBM bought AMD IBM would be extremely interested in.

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Pwnjohnson

· #16 · Jun 28, 2007

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IBM could destroy AMD and Intel if they entered the CPU Market with Nvidia as their partner to make the boards and such. Might need a li... LOT of help making it run windows though. I'm pretty sure super computers don't run windows anyways, maybe they do.

I'm pretty sure a BSOD on one of those machines would S U C K.

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MGX1016

· #17 · Jun 28, 2007

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More like every other team combined... it might lose but not by much i bet.

32Bit CPU are useless now since 64Bit CPU can run 64Bit and 32Bit operating systems and software. AMD's CPU probably don't work in a way you could combine the two technologies easily. Since they already have ATI it would be more profitable to keep it. Especially since it would help in fusion which is IBM bought AMD IBM would be extremely interested in.

32bit is far from out, last I checked Intel uses 64bit sort of like it's quad cores. Not "real."

Most apps are still 32 bit and it will be a while before EVERYONE is 64bit. Dell still is on 32 I believe and so many people buy from there..

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kidwolf909

· #18 · Jun 28, 2007

Guess what! MY college is actually GETTING one of those from IBM for our Comp. Sci. department!

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Axon

· #19 · Jun 28, 2007

immagine AMD, Intel & IBM all teaming up and producing a super CPU for computers that run windows

immagine the best features from each company all put into one chip *drools*

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k007

· #20 · Jun 28, 2007

IBM? i thought it's done and it will offical be called Lenovo now, since Lenovo bought their user computers but IBM only sells servers now

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