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Blue Gene goes nuclear
Talkback Try a global warming simulation on Blue Gene, as a pastime. It'll not take no more than a month.
[December 24, 2004, 16:14]
Blue Gene unfolds at Japan lab
News IBM has sold a Blue Gene/L supercomputer to a Japanese lab to investigate the shapes of proteins--the task that inspired the Blue Gene programme in the first place. This protein-folding problem was the original challenge that led IBM to launch the...
[September 7, 2004, 9:00]
Blue Gene rises up the ranks
News A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer has posted speed results that lift it to the high ranks of supercomputing, IBM plans to announce on Monday. The system, called Blue Gene Watson and located at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center, performed 91.3...
[June 13, 2005, 10:00]
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Thursday and announced that it has broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. When Blue Gene/L runs Linpack, each processor performs...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
News IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has doubled its own performance record by doubling in size; the machine has now performed at 135.5 teraflops, the Department of Energy said on Wednesday. Blue Gene began in 2000 as a research project to build a...
[March 24, 2005, 9:15]
Blue Gene set to claim supercomputing crown
News The US Department of Energy plans to unveil test results on Thursday that are likely to place IBM's Blue Gene/L as the fastest supercomputer in the world, CNET News.com has learned. The agency will announce that Blue Gene/L performed more than 70...
[November 4, 2004, 8:33]
Dr. IBM prescribes Blue Gene to hunt down HIV
Blog This project gives the Blue Gene supercomputer another chance to flex its muscles and, I’m told, combines a new experimental characterisation aimed at targeting the infection process itself. It’s not often that you hear the acronyms IBM and HIV in...
[April 3, 2008, 15:33]
Storm worm: More powerful than Blue Gene?
News The Storm worm botnet has been estimated to control between one million and five million computers, which one researcher says makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. At the lowest estimate of one million computers, Guttman...
[September 12, 2007, 9:23]
IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot
News 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 dishwasher that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second. Blue Gene/L is a somewhat exotic machine that's...
[November 14, 2003, 8:40]
IBM sews up second Blue Gene deal
News IBM will install a second Blue Gene/L supercomputer as part of a radio telescope project in the Netherlands, the company plans to announce on Monday. IBM declined to comment for this story, but the Lofar Web site said Astron signed a memorandum of...
[February 23, 2004, 9:40]
IBM's Blue Gene to hit the shelves
News IBM's Blue Gene/L just got a step more mundane. But as IBM earlier promised would happen, the design has now become a comparatively ordinary product sold by IBM's server group under the brand name eServer Blue Gene.
[November 8, 2004, 13:53]
Recommendations for Porting Open Source Software (OSS) to Blue Gene/P
White Papers Migrating applications from a Linux cluster to IBM's Blue Gene/P can be a beneficial effort, but it is not an entirely painless effort. The degree of difficulty derives from the fact that Blue Gene/P does not come with the OSS that is installed...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
Talkback I suppose everybody knows it is running linux, but still, and more about that here: http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2005/03/15/cz_dl_0315linux.html
[March 24, 2005, 10:51]
Blue Gene goes nuclear
Talkback Yes, yes this is all very novel. However, have these scientists considered putting this supreme computing power to something more relevant in people lives. Consider calculating the probability first thing in the morning, either on hot or cold days...
[December 24, 2004, 15:40]
Dr. IBM prescribes Blue Gene to hunt down HIV
Blog Comment This reminds me somewhat of the Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil. Lets just hope things dont turn out the same way lol. Im sure IBM can be trusted. If it works as well that would be a massive step forward and could be implemented with other...
[April 4, 2008, 10:05]
IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot
Talkback Is that 360 Teraflops?
[November 17, 2003, 10:29]
IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot
Talkback You will always notice that when a new supercomputer is trying for the new Top Dog Position, it always fails to mention :Throughput, amount of main memory, amount of hard disk (mass storage capability) storage and last but not least, the amount of...
[September 29, 2004, 23:31]
IBM supercomputer to drive brain research
News IBM has sold a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but EPFL bought a four-rack Blue Gene model, and IBM charges about $2m (£1.1m) per rack.
[June 6, 2005, 10:00]
Big Blue breaks 36 Teraflop barrier to take supercomputing speed lead
News IBM claimed first place on Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L, which beat a Japanese machine from NEC. Researchers at the Blue Gene/L production facility in Rochester, Minnesota, clocked the...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
News IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be capable of processing more than three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops, a possible record. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more...
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
