Blue Gene is a computer architecture project designed to produce several next-generation supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the petaflops range, and currently reaching sustained ...

IBM and the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced completion of a contract for a 445-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. As the ...

Blue Gene/L will be large, but significantly smaller than current IBM supercomputers such as ASCI White, a nuclear weapons simulation machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which will ...

Blue gene active storage boosts I/O performance Date: November 18, 2013 Source: Forschungszentrum Juelich Summary: Scientists have announced the successful installation of the first Blue Gene ...

Based on IBM’s PowerPC A2 processing architecture, each of the BGQ’s 64-bit processors sports 16 compute cores, four times the number of cores used in the previous Blue Gene/P system, with each CPU ...

We did tune the I/O for the Blue Gene architecture, but it is still slower than the blindingly fast computation and communication speeds. Depending on how much data gets written, ...

IBM opens up its fourth Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center, this one offering access on a pay-per-use basis to its Blue Gene supercomputer.

Big Blue sheds light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a proclivity for Linux.