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IBM to Build World's Fastest Supercomputers for U.S. Department of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded IBM a $290 million contract to build the two fastest supercomputers in the world with a combined peak speed of 460 trillion calculations per second (teraflops). The first supercomputer, called ASCI Purple, will be used for simulation and modeling in the U.S. nuclear weapons mission. ASCI Purple will be powered by 12,544 POWER5 microprocessors, IBM's next generation microprocessor. These processors will be contained in 196 individual computers, which will be interconnected as a single system. ASCI Purple will also contain 50 terabytes of memory and have two petabytes of disk storage. The second system, called Blue Gene/L, will be focused on research in many important scientific areas, such as predicting global climate change and studying the interaction between atmospheric chemistry and pollution. Blue Gene/L will have the peak performance of 360 teraflops with 130,000 processors running Linux. It will have the capability to process data at a rate of one terabit per second. IBM said these two systems will have more than one-and-a-half times the combined processing power of all 500 machines on the recently announced TOP500 List of Supercomputers.

http://www.ibm.com/news/us/2002/11/19.html
19-Nov-02

TOP500 List of Supercomputers Worldwide: http://www.top500.org/list/2002/11/

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