"It comes into production in its final form only in 2012 the new IBM supercomputer built using technology Blue Genie"
The availability of processing power increasingly large open space to use increasingly demanding of their PCs in both home and office, at costs that prove to be if not in constant decline as a constant. Just think of the ability to run video editing complex flows on high-definition video to determine a home for passionate users, able to exploit fully in all the processing power of your system.
The increase in processing power of PCs can be exploited best when the problems to be solved in terms of calculations, involving the simultaneous use of thousands of processors. We speak of the Supercomputer, a term adopted to describe the cluster of PCs connected to each other and specifically dedicated to parallel computations, and particularly heavy at the same time, important.
The NNSA U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, has concluded an agreement with IBM for the provision of a new SUPERCOMPUTER that for 2012, the year in which it provides for the completion, will be able to provide a power of processing up to 20 times what is available now at this institution.
Sequoia is the code name by which it is currently indicated the supercomputer during a transaction that will have a duration of 3 years. In the first phase will be in Dawn, the first portion supercomputer capable of processing power of 500 TeraFLOPS ; to bring into production a matter of weeks, before the end of first quarter 2009.
After the installation phase will reach the supercomputer processing power of 20 PetaFLOPS, thanks to the parallel of 1.6 million processor cores divided into 98,304 nodes placed within 96 Racks, record the amount of memory installed, equivalent to 1.6 petabytes.
The ranking of top 500 supercomputers worldwide currently provides a system architecture mixed with Roadrunner, AMD Opteron processor solutions backed by Cell, capable of a peak value of 1456.7 TeraFLOPS. In the next 3 years Sequoia far exceed these values, an estimated value in 20,000 Tera flops. This processing power will increase the accuracy on processing very important: up to 50x in the prediction of earthquakes and up to 40x in the one linked to the weather forecast.
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