IBM AND DOE'S NNSA PARTNER TO EXPAND IBM'S BLUE GENE RESEARCH PROJECT.

Federal Computer Market Report, November, 2001

IBM recently announced a partnership with the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Agency to expand IBM's Blue Gene research project.

IBM and NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will jointly design a new supercomputer in the Blue Gene family. Called Blue Gene/L, the machine will be at least 15 times faster, 15 times more power efficient and consume about 50 times less space per computation than today's fastest supercomputers.

Blue Gene/L marks a major expansion of the Blue Gene project. Blue Gene/L is expected to operate at about 200 teraflops (200 trillion operations per second) which is larger than the total computing power of the top 500 supercomputers in the world today. Blue Gene/L will also be a part of IBM's research in...

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