New supercomputer IBM does bite to breath
In the shadow of the International Supercomputing Conference in the German Dresden, IBM has proposed the new generation of the well-known Blue That-supercomputers. Deep breath get, for the specifications do bite to breath.
The Blue That/PEN can till more than three biljard calculations per second export, or three petaflops. Only not only the top speeds is impressive: the Blue That/PEN is according to IBM designed round continuously more thanpetaflop to process.
Who problems has the giantic rack power of the new supercomputer for to put:petaflop stands right at the combined rack power of a 2.5 kilometer high pile advanced laptops.
Blue That/L, the predecessor of the Blue That/PEN, clocked off on “only” 280 teraflops or 280 biljoen calculations per second. That was enough to lead past November the ranking of most powerful supercomputers in the world on. The new ranking known is made this week, but the toppositie appears reserved now already for the Blue That/PEN.
Different investigation centers want end this year a Blue That/PEN in use take. On the list of customers, we find among many the American ministry of Energy, the German Max Planck Gesellschaft and the university Stony Brook.
Investigation centers, that the cherry verses milestone in supercomputing in house want to get, must except of about deep bags also about sufficient space see to. petaflop to get has the Blue That/PEN 294,912 processors necessarily, put away in 72 racks. For three petaflops, IBM counts divided on 884,736 processors about 216 rack-clusters.
The chips that uses become in the Blue That/PEN have been composed of four PowerPC 450 turns at 850 MHz. On a printplaat of sixty on sixty centimeters fit 32 of that chips, good for 435 billions adaptations per second. 32 of this printrecords live in a 1.8 meter high rack.