[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

need some details about what is inside.

[Uri’el-2012]

need some details about what is inside.

Massively parallel Linux ??

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Blue Gene is a computer architecture project to produce several supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the PFLOPS (petaFLOPS) range, and currently reaching sustained speeds of nearly 500 TFLOPS (teraFLOPS). It is a cooperative project among IBM (particularly IBM Rochester and the Thomas J. Watson Research Center), the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the United States Department of Energy (which is partially funding the project), and academia. There are four Blue Gene projects in development: Blue Gene/L, Blue Gene/C, Blue Gene/P, and Blue Gene/Q.



The Blue Gene/Q is a 4-way hyperthreaded 64-bit PowerPC A2 based chip with 16 cores. The chips will have integrated memory, I/O controllers and be mounted on a compute node card which also has 1 GB DDR3 RAM for each processor core.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Adding this:

Argonne Lab upgrading to world's fastest supercomputer

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It’s a variant on IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputers used at other national laboratories but will be 20 times faster than Argonne’s fastest supercomputer. The new machine, which will be housed in a new computer sciences building at Argonne, also will be smaller and more energy-efficient than other similar machines.

[TSgt]

need some details about what is inside.

A better question would be, "What are they doing with it?"