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Article: IBM Rochester, Minn., Scales Up for New Supercomputer.
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- Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2003
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Byline: Bob Freund
Nov. 24--The tiny, green-tinted lights on the circuit board don't flicker at a furious speed. A visitor to a lower-level test lab at IBM Rochester would never guess the boards mounted in the lower slots of a rack are the starting point for what could become the fastest computer on the planet.
But by 2005, the Blue Gene/L computer under development at IBM Rochester could gain that distinction. Last week, a prototype was ranked the 73rd-most powerful supercomputer in the world at a speed of 2 trillion operations (teraflops) per second.
When completed, the new computer will be 128 times as large, with peak performance of about ...