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| IBM sets the pace for TOP500 |
| Armonk 18 June 2008
IBM showing occupying in the TOP500 the top three spots and a total of 210 systems on the list - the most of any supercomputer vendor. IBM also had the most aggregate performance on the list with 5.6 petaflops (48% of total); and the most systems in the top 10, top 50, and top 100.
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The no.2 fastest computer in the world is an IBM Blue Gene/L system at NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California, which clocked in at 478 teraflops (478 trillion calculations per second.) Team Blue Gene also held the no.3 spot with a 450 teraflop performance from the Blue Gene/P system housed at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Lab in Chicago.
IBM also had the most power efficient systems: IBM QS22 PowerXCell 8i processor-based supercomputers at IBM Germany and Fraunhofer; and the NNSA system; and the fastest machine in Europe - the Blue Gene/P at Juelich Research Centre in Germany. |
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| Source: IBM |
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