IBM Announces Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer Coming Online in 2012 – 20 petaflops!
IBM recently announced its next generation supercomputing project, Blue Gene/Q, will provide an ultra-scale technical computing platform to solve the most challenging problems facing engineers and scientists at faster, more energy efficient, and more reliable rates than ever before. Blue Gene/Q is expected to predict the path of hurricanes, analyze the ocean floor to discover oil, simulate nuclear weapons performance and decode gene sequences. When Blue Gene/Q is fully deployed in 2012 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the system, named Sequoia, is expected to achieve 20 petaflops at peak performance, marking it as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
When it is fully deployed in 2012 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the system, named Sequoia, is expected to achieve 20 petaflops at peak performance, marking it as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The capabilities this system represents will help ensure United States leadership in high performance computing (HPC) and the science it makes possible. Moreover, Blue Gene/Q is expected to become the worlds most power-efficient computer, churning out 2 gigaflops per watt.
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