According to the list, the BlueGene/L computer, which IBM installed in the US Department of Energy, holds the title of the most powerful computer in the world thanks to the performance of 280.6 trillion operations per second * The University of Texas ordered a supercomputer with AMD processors from Sun
IBM's BlueGene/L computer located at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California
During the month of November, the list of the 500 largest supercomputers in the world was published. According to the list, the BlueGene/L computer, which IBM installed at the US Department of Energy, holds the title of the most powerful computer in the world - thanks to a performance of 280.6 teraflops (trillion operations per second). The IBM computer is located at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California and is designed to carry out simulations for a nuclear weapons test for the US Department of Energy. In second place was ranked a system manufactured by Cray installed at the National Laboratory in Sandia, USA, which provides 101.4 teraflops. The list of the 500 largest supercomputers in the world has been published twice a year since 1993 and is compiled by a team of three researchers at the University of Mannheim in Germany and the University of Tennessee in the USA.
The third, fourth and fifth places on the list are also held by IBM, with the BlueGene/W computer in the company's Thomas Watson laboratories, the ASC Purple computer - also in the Lawrence Livermore laboratories and the MareNostrum JS21 computer in the supercomputer center in Barcelona. In total, IBM supplied 239 of the 500 most powerful computers in the world - while ahead of HP, which settles for second place with 156 systems. 306 of the 500 most powerful computers in the world are installed in the USA, 95 in Europe and the rest in Asia.
IBM also leads in the aggregate computing power of its supercomputers included in the list: systems manufactured by IBM provide 1,763 out of 3,536 teraflops - which is a total of 49.9% of the aggregate power of the 500 largest computers in the world, compared to 16.35% for HP. About 44 of the 100 systems that open the list were provided by IBM - compared to 7 by HP. IBM is also the most popular supplier of cluster systems, with 171 of 359 such systems included in the list of the 500 most powerful computers in the world.
Computer at the University of Texas
The University of Texas bought a supercomputer built by Sun and based on AMD processors
The new computer, which costs about 59 million dollars, uses about 13 thousand processors and provides a record power of more than 400 trillion operations per second? The new supercomputer will be used by hundreds of academic and government researchers across the US for complex computing problems in dozens of scientific and technical fields
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A new supercomputer, which is supposed to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, will soon be installed at the University of Texas. The cost of the computer, estimated at 59 million dollars, will be financed by the university through a grant it received from the National Science Foundation in the USA. The university said the new computer, built by Sun Microsystems, uses 13 AMD processors, and will have a peak power of more than 400 trillion operations per second. The processors that will be used in the final configuration of the machine will be Opteron processors with 4 cores from AMD.
The University of Texas is partnering with Cornell University in New York and Arizona State in this project, and its completion is expected next fall. The federal funds pay for the computer itself and covered operating expenses for four years. The new computer will be the largest computer connected to TeraGrid - a high-performance computer network funded by the National Science Foundation.
"In many ways it's the national champion of high-performance computing, and we've won it," said Jay Roiseau, director of the University of Texas Advanced Computing Center, which employs 60 computer researchers and other technical staff. The new supercomputer will be used by hundreds of academic and government researchers across the US for complex computing problems in dozens of scientific and technical fields, such as the study of cells, the effect of viruses on human cells, and the way proteins fight obesity inside cells.
