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The world's top 10 supercomputers.(HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING)

Scientific Computing & Instrumentation, August, 2005

1. BlueGene/L [beta]-System * IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution * Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA * 136.8 TF/s, 65,536 processors BlueGene/L is designed for research and development in computational science and is targeted at delivering hundreds of teraflops to selected applications of interest for the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC).

It has doubled in size since November 2004 and will be doubled in size once again before the next version of the TOP500 list is published in November 2005. This next doubling in size will bring BlueGene/L to its planned final configuration with 65,536 dual-processor compute nodes for a theoretical peak computing capability in excess of 360 teraflops. 2. Watson Blue...

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