Big Blue Breaks 36 Teraflop Barrier To Take Supercomputing Speed Lead
News IBM is building the Blue Gene/L for nuclear weapons lab Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory but has begun selling the system to other customers. But when it comes to the nuclear weapons simulations at the heart of the lab's mission, the 512MB of...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
IBM Stays Top Of The Supercomputer League
News In a research project, IBM will build a system called Blue Gene/L with 65,000 processors at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for nuclear weapons simulation, the company plans to announce today (Friday).
[November 9, 2001, 12:07]
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. Two of the new customers will be using Blue Gene.
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
Blue Gene/L Cruises Past 100 Teraflop Barrier
News Livermore's Blue Gene/L initially was expected to be used for nonclassified work, but its mission expanded to include weapons research as the lab realised it could be useful there too, Johnston said. IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has doubled its...
[March 24, 2005, 9:15]
IBM To Build Fastest Supercomputers To Date
News The design details of Blue Gene/L still haven't been settled beyond a plan for it to have 65,636 computing nodes, said Peter Ungaro, IBM vice president of high-performance computing. The other machine, the Linux-powered Blue Gene/L for civilian...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
IBM Delivers Europe's Biggest Supercomputer
News IBM's forthcoming Blue Gene/L, which Sanchez said will be more powerful than the current list of Top 500 supercomputers put together when it is finished in a couple of years' time, will be significantly smaller than current IBM supercomputers such...
[February 19, 2004, 15:54]
IBM Wins Bid To Build Hybrid Supercomputer
News Its sister lab and sometimes rival, Lawrence Livermore, has had the Big Blue affinity, housing the current top-ranked supercomputer, Blue Gene/L. Although customers can buy the current Blue Gene/L systems or rent their processing power from IBM...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Linux Will Power IBM Supercomputer Project
News Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers -- a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. IBM's $100m (£64m) Blue Gene program is directed at...
[October 25, 2002, 7:55]
SCO Takes On US Government Supercomputers
News Livermore also will be the site that houses IBM's Linux-based Blue Gene/L, a machine that's expected to be the world's fastest. Linux is widely used for supercomputers made of clusters of lower-end machines, and the Energy Department is an avid...
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
IBM Readies Retail Supercomputer
News The company already has a multitude of products for the market, ranging from ordinary clusters of lower-end servers to the exotic Blue Gene/L. That was the case for the p5-575's star customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ASC Purple, a...
[February 11, 2005, 8:00]
Reading Supercomputer Tackles Climate Change
News The world's most powerful supercomputer is the IBM Blue Gene/L system developed for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The Reading system is the UK's number-two supercomputer overall, second only to the £20m...
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
Chinese Supercomputer Heads Towards Top Of Rankings
News And Blue Gene/L, a hybrid between exotic designs and more standard clusters at the Livermore lab, is expected to reach 360 teraflops in 2005. Countries with supercomputing prowess such as the United States have long sought to restrict the export of...
[June 4, 2004, 9:20]
IBM Breaks The Petaflop Barrier
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
