IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer
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AMD chips in Los Alamos lab's Roadrunner system to be augmented with the PlayStation's processing brains.
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The project will tap into the power of home PCs to create a virtul supercomputer. By Paul McDougall. As part of a broader effort to spur collaborative research in key industries, IBM on Tuesday launched a project
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IBM later this month will begin shipping the second generation of its two-way server powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.&#39;s 64-bit Opteron processor.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose IBMÂ to build a new supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, IBM announced Wednesday. Named "Roadrunner," the new machine comes with a price tag of $35 million, the amount allotted by the U.S. Congress to the DOE's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) for its purchase. One potential use for Roadrunner is to monitor and maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. DOE officials said they would monitor the computer's development to see if it meets the criteria to perform that task. The DOE has used supercomputers to keep an eye on the health and readiness of the U.S.'s nuclear weapons, in lieu of actual underground nuclear tests. Roadrunner will run Red Hat's version 4.3 Linux operating system, and will be built entirely with commercially available hardware running two different types of processors, IBM said. The company will use IBM x3755 systems, with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, alongside IBM BladeCenter H systems with Cell processors.
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Technology giant IBM will announce today that it has built the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer, surpassing the performance of a machine in Yokohama, Japan.
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International Business Machines Corp (IBM) said it created the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer and is using it as the model for smaller, less costly systems due next year that can handle trillions of calculations a second.
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IBM said in a press release that it is working with many national lab and universities to develop Blue Gene supercomputer applications in areas such as life sciences, hydrodynamics, quantum
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IBM&#39;s still incomplete Blue Gene/L system being built in Rochester, Minnesota, has officially been named the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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IBM's Cell processor will power the next great supercomputer, commissioned by the US Dept. of Energy, but it will share the stage with AMD Opteron processors. The result will be the world's fastest computer ever built, reaching 1.6 trillion calculations per second.
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Sixteen racks of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer can perform 70.7 trillion calculations per second.
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In September, IBM announced that the Blue Gene/L prototype had sustained speeds of 36 trillion calculations per second. Last week, NASA announced that a system built by Silicon Graphics had topped that by sustaining 42 trillion calculations per second.
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New high-end dual-core Opterons will power servers.
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IBM Corp. has announced it has built a supercomputer that surpasses the performance of the Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan, the computer widely regarded as the worldâs most powerful.
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IBM&#39;S Blue Gene supercomputer, which is still being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has set an unofficial performance record.
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Opteron to gain power preservation tech - and other goodies
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IBM claims it has already developed a new BlueGene model that had surpassed the one petaflop barrier - one quadrillion sustained operations per second. But it may be another five months before that fact is verified by the University of Mannheim, which today recorded the 65,536 x2-core BlueGene/L as holding the lead in its Top 500 Supercomputers list, with an unchanged rating of 280,600 gigaflops per second.
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IBM (Quote, Chart) is looking to get a leg up on the competition with the October 15 launch of eServer 326, a rack-mounted server that supports AMD&#39;s (Quote, Chart) upcoming dual-core 64-bit processor.