The new computer, dubbed Bluefire, was installed at the US National Institute of Atmospheric Research and will be used to research and build drought models, plan agricultural seasons, study global warming and predict the development of hurricanes.
IBM has provided the US National Institute of Atmospheric Research with a new supercomputer capable of performing 76 trillion operations per second. The new computer, nicknamed Bluefire, will be used to research and build drought models, plan agricultural seasons, study global warming and predict the development of hurricanes. IBM's Bluefire, or in its official name IBM Power 575, combines 4,046 IBM Power 7 processors with a clock speed of 4.7 GHz, and also includes 12 terabytes of internal memory and 150 terabytes of disks.
Bluefire is capable of 76 trillion floating point operations per second (76 teraflops). Fast machines of this type are becoming a central tool in climate change research in general - and for weather forecasting and the development of hurricanes and extreme weather conditions in particular. The new system is cooled with IBM's unique water cooling technology, which guarantees a 33% higher efficiency compared to air cooling and thus helps save energy and preserve the quality of the environment.
The scientists of the American National Institute will use the new supercomputer to perform simulations that will be submitted as a basis for the next report of the intergovernmental association for the treatment of climate change, which is partly behind the Kyoto Protocol. Scientists hope that the results of these simulations will contribute answers to the debate about the extent of the contribution of the emission of carbon pollutants into the atmosphere - to the process of global warming. With the installation of the supercomputer, the processing capacity at the institute, which focuses on climate research, increased threefold - replacing three supercomputers from previous generations, which offered an aggregate processing capacity of 20 teraflops.
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Good news for Microsoft.
I can reveal to the public that MS is planning a whore operating system, with an incredible number of features, but the computer that can run it has not yet been born.
This "blue fire" sounds like an interesting candidate - maybe we'll run a degenerate module of our operating system on it in the first step, one that runs the "Hello, World" program, and test performance. Just where do you find a video card for such a thing?!
This is the computer that will run the following Windows with minimum requirements
I assume the reporter meant a billion
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IBM Blue Gene does 478 trillion operations per second, so 76 is not very impressive, with all due respect, and there is respect.
And even on this computer Vista is slow.
Maybe the video card is weak or there are a lot of programs residing in the memory
Or you need to format and install
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