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IBM's third-generation Blue Gene aims for 100 petaflops

...fastest publicly disclosed supercomputer today. IBM has outlined the architecture for its Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, which will be able to reach 100 petaflops. Image... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Jack Clark
Parallel I/O Performance for Application-Level Checkpointing on the <endeca_term>Blue Gene</endeca_term>/P System

Parallel I/O Performance for Application-Level Checkpointing on the Blue Gene/P System

...for a massively parallel electromagnetic solver system called NekCEM on the IBM Blue Gene/P at Argonne National Laboratory Read more

28 July, 2011

UK supercomputer probes dark matter and dark energy

...suitable for different kinds of computational calculations. Another example is the Blue Gene supercomputer in the Dutch city of Groningen, which processes data from... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Europe's Prace HPC grid aims for exaflop power by 2019

...first production system to be used in Prace, the one-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/P (Jugene), at Forschungszentrum Jülich. A call for proposals for access... Read more

10 June, 2010 by David Meyer

Photos: The birth of a supercomputer

...Rochester is the home of the Blue Gene supercomputer, and is also the birthplace of the AS400. The man... Read more

23 January, 2006 by Colin Barker

Supercomputing on tour

...computationally intense industries such as petroleum exploration. Scientists and researchers are finding Blue Gene's power so appealing, in fact, that IBM is now mass... Read more

26 September, 2005 by David Braue

IBM's Blue Gene to hit the shelves

IBM's Blue Gene/L just got a step more mundane. The machine began life... Read more

8 November, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Blue Gene rises up the ranks

A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer has posted speed results that lift it to the... Read more

13 June, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot

IBM plans to reveal the first indication of the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Friday, a machine about the size of a... Read more

14 November, 2003 by Stephen Shankland
Flexing US muscle in supercomputing

Flexing US muscle in supercomputing

...up with Turek, who last week announced the sale of IBM's Blue Gene/P supercomputer to Russia. The installation at Moscow State University's... Read more

29 January, 2008 by Charles Cooper

Top 500 supercomputers announced

...one was released in November 2006. But one familiar supercomputer, IBM's Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, again topped the Top500 Supercomputer... Read more

27 June, 2007 by Erica Ogg

IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop

The petaflop era has begun. IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be capable of processing... Read more

26 June, 2007 by Michael Kanellos

Europe's most powerful supercomputer launched

...The Jülich Research Center has deployed a system based on IBM's Blue Gene. Jülich's supercomputer, called Jülicher Blue Gene /L (JUBL), consists of... Read more

14 March, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

IBM supercomputer to drive brain research

IBM has sold a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. The... Read more

6 June, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier

IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has doubled its own performance record by doubling in... Read more

24 March, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

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