Wow, IBM is all the time surprising us with the supercomputers. This time they developed a new computer, “Blue gene/p” that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second, or 3 petaflops.

Just for your guindance, and to bear in mind what this new computer represents, the last faster supercomputer, “Blue Gene/L” could process  about 280 teraflops, which represents around 280 trillion operations a second during continuous operation. So the new computer is 10 times faster…

Just to have an idea what is “Blue Gene/P”, check the following figures:

“The chip inside Blue Gene/P consists of four PowerPC 450 cores running at 850MHz each. A 2×2 foot circuit board containing 32 of the Blue Gene/P chips can churn out 435 billion operations a second. Thirty two of these boards can be stuffed into a 6-foot-high rack.

The chip inside the Blue Gene/L contained two PowerPC cores running at 700MHz.

The 1-petaflop Blue Gene/P comes with 294,912 processors and takes up 72 racks in all. Hitting 3 petaflops takes an 884,736-processor, 216-rack cluster, according to IBM. The chips and other components are linked together in a high-speed optical network.”

It’s just awesome!!!

Brgds,

CP