Friday, March 14, 2008

linux on IBM's BlueGene

When i was browsing about high performance computing for a seminar i came across links on

blue gene..the fastest super computer from IBM..they announced blue gene in 1999 which was

initially developed to facilitate and speed up scientific research..like..human protein

modelling,etc..now used in various labs for various reasons one among which is nuclear

test simulations

Blue Gene is the successor of deep blue,the super computer which defeated gary kasprov in a chess competition..

• it has 65000 processors..

• speed ranging in petaflops

• one quadrillion operations per second....


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

machi mind-blowing da....i learnt a lot....ur works are great...all the best...nagarjun.g.c.