IBM's Sequoia takes #Top500 supercomputer top spot
An IBM supercomputer installed at a U.S. laboratory has achieved the top speed rating in the world, ending Japan's one-year reign atop a ranking that is considered crucial for scientific research and national defense. IBM's Blue Gene/Q design took four of the top 10 spots in the latest Top500 list.
Meet Sequoia - a computer that takes just one hour for a calculation that would take 6.7 billion people 320 years bbc.in/Lw8U0q- Prof Dongarra told the BBC it was unlikely that another manufacturer would overtake IBM in the next year. "Sequoia is very impressive," he said.
IBM Computer Wins Speed RecordAn IBM supercomputer installed at a U.S. laboratory achieved the top speed rating in the world, ending Japan's one-year reign atop a rank...- Using specialty accelerator chips works well for some chores, said Ambuj Goyal, general manager of development and manufacturing for IBM's Systems and Technology group. But a more general-purpose architecture like Sequoia provides greater flexibility to do more jobs without extensively rewriting software, he said. -- Wall Street Journal
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The World's Fastest Supercomputer Is American AgainA computer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration by IBM has just been crowned the world's fastest supercomputer, accordi...- Sequoia was built by IBM, a company whose BlueGene/Q supercomputers are now resurgent. Back in November, the last time the Top500 list was published, there weren’t any BlueGene systems in the top 10. Today, there are four, including an 8.2 petaflop system at Argonne National Laboratory and others in Italy and Germany. -- Wired
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- "IBM has been building systems like this for decades, and has some of the most advanced R&D in this area," said Rob Enderle.
- "Hats off to IBM for its success. Not only did the company's homegrown Blue Gene/Q architecture take four of the top 10 spots, but its iDataPlex system, powered by the Intel Xeon, also took the No. 4 spot," Charles King of Pund-IT.
Technology News: Computing: IBM's Sequoia Towers Above All Other SupercomputersIBM's Sequoia supercomputer has headed up the most recent Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The list, released on Monday...- "HPC [high-performance computing] technical servers, especially supercomputers, have been closely linked, not only to scientific advances but also to industrial innovation and economic competitiveness. For this reason, nations and regions across the world are increasing their investments in supercomputing, even in today's challenging economic conditions," Earl Joseph, program vice president for technical computing at IDC.
IBM Brings the U.S. Back to Top of List of Fastest Supercomputers - IT Infrastructure - News & ReviewsIBM's Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is now the world's fastest system, marking the return of a ...
