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Thursday June 28, 2007 5:20 pm
IBM to Plug In World’s Fastest Computer - Blue Gene/P
IBM has just launched the planet’s fastest computer. Bought by the U.S. government, the Blue Gene/P is capable of “petaflop” speeds, equal to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, which makes it 100,000 more powerful than an ordinary PC. Blue Gene/P will be installed at the DOE Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and its purpose is to study simulation in various areas, from particle physics to nanotechnology. This new computer is three times faster than the Blue Gene/L, which is now in charge of our nuclear weapons. We just wonder if they could make a Blue Gene/W to watch over the other two occasionally.
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