“With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM’s Blue Gene/L on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. IBM built four of the top ten machines on the biannual list,” Robert McMillan reports for IDG News Service. “Blue Gene/L is a 33,000-processor prototype of a much larger $100 million system that will be delivered to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, during the first half of 2005. The system is capable of performing 70.72 trillion calculations per second, making it the first new system to top the list since NEC’s Earth Simulator first appeared in 2002.”
“When fully assembled at Lawrence Livermore, Blue Gene/L will be a 130,000-processor system with an estimated peak performance of 360 teraflops, according to IBM. A teraflop is one trillion calculations per second,” McMillan reports. “In second place on Monday’s Top500 ranking is the 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer, built by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, in Mountain View, California. With a benchmarked performance of 51.87 teraflops, it easily beat out the Earth Simulator, which was measured at 35.86 teraflops.”
“Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University reappeared on the list, finishing in seventh position five months after dropping off the last list, issued in June, because of a hardware upgrade to Apple Computer’s Xserve systems. Virginia Tech’s SuperMac system reported a benchmark of 12.25 teraflops,” McMillan reports.
Full article here.
Looks like a bright future for supercomputing in the USA. With NEC at the top for so long and the Space Shuttle in shambles it was looking like we had given up on the technology war.
Give me supercomputing and nano will follow and so will biotech and aerospace and swim suits! I want a hovering skateboard and a self-drying jacket. Marty McFly, there a new Doc in town and he works for IBM.
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Here’s a story dated Nov 8…
Hope this whets your appitite !
The Top500 rankings are based on Linpack scores. Mach5 uses only gigabit ethernet instead of the high end Infiniband connection. How would this affect Linpack performance?
mac dood. thanks for the article, but its actually dated 6/22/04. i have seen this article before. i have not heard anything since august regarding MACH 5 – only that they were hoping to be running at 22+ teraflops by fall ’04.
not heard anything since.
does anyone know if any other planned G5 clusters are on the drawing board?
i should cash out some stock and build my own (maybe around 4000 nodes or so?) – but i think wife would not like scuttling our retirement funds. ah to play Halo 2 on such a system!
Sorry about that webbyswim…. I got that date from the google page…
Hey, if you ever do build that system, can I come over and play Halo 2 with you ?? lol
Sounds like fun !!
Expensive, yes…but fun nonetheless !!
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lease time on cluster to all with in your moral standards that can pay and make more loot then from pension