IBM has announced the Blue Gene/Q next generation supercomputing project, for full deployment in 2012.
The Blue Gene/Q-based Sequoia system will be installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and is expected to achieve 20 petaflops at peak performance, making it one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
The high performance computing (HPC) will allow engineers and scientists to solve very challenging problems faster and more reliably.
Blue Gene/Q is also expected to become the world’s most power-efficient computer, churning out 2 gigaflops per watt.
The third generation in the Blue Gene family of supercomputers, Blue Gene/Q operates at an order of magnitude faster than previous systems, deploying 16 multi-processing core technology and a scalable peak performance up to 100 petaflops.
Applicable to a growing set of computationally intensive workloads within the scientific community, Blue Gene/Q is the ideal platform for highly complex projects in a broad range of areas from nuclear energy to climate modeling.
Designed with a small footprint and low power requirements, Blue Gene/Q was ranked as the number-one most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world by the Green500.
It provides low latency, high performance runs that simplify tracing errors and tuning performance, all based on an open source and standards-based operating environment.
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