IBM to Build Europe's First Petaflop Supercomputer

Category: Manufacturers
Posted: February 10, 2009 07:59PM
Author: Nemo

IBM has agreed to to build a supercomputer for the German research center Forschungszentrum Juelich  capable of petaflop performance. Currently only two machines have broken that barrier, IBM's Roadrunner machine at the U.S. Depart of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Cray XT Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This follows on the heels of IBM's recent announcement for the 20 petaflop Sequoia supercomputer due to come online sometime in 2012. The Blue Gene/P System supercomputer being built for Germany will use 294,912 IBM Power processors housed in 72 server racks and contain 144TB of memory and sport 6 petabytes of hard drive storage. The system will be IBM's first supercomputer to use water cooling.

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