Wednesday, 4. February 2009
Topic: COMPUTER - on February 4, 2009 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Uncle Sam buys 20 petaflops BlueGene super
The American government's appetite for ever-bigger gobs of supercomputing power has been a blessing for IBM and Cray, and this morning it was Big Blue's turn to brag about two big deals it has scored with Uncle Sam.
The first and smallest of the two machines, nicknamed Dawn, will be installed in the second half of this year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the Department of Energy's supercomputing centers. LLNL and Sandia National Laboratory do a lot of research and drive supercomputing technology, but their systems are predominantly dedicated to simulating nuclear weapons and their detonation - what IBM referred to as "the nation's aging nuclear deterrent".
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