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BlueGene/L Puts the Hammer Down

Posted by Hemos on from the welcome-to-the-machine dept.

OnePragmatist writes "Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch is reporting that BlueGene/L has nearly doubled its performance to 135.3 Teraflops by doubling its processors. That seems likely to keep it at no. 1 on the Top500 when the next round comes out in June. But it will be interesting to see how it does when they finally get around to testing it against the HPC Challenge benchmark, which has gained adherents as being more indicative of how a HPC system will peform with various different types of applicatoins."

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  1. Finally... by Nos. · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe this thing can keep the WoW service running.

  2. Re:similarities by TetryonX · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the BlueGene/L can grant me any wish I want for collecting 7 of them, sign me up.

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  3. Maybe it will be able to... by EvanED · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...host a spell check for Slashdot! ...as being more indicative of how a HPC system will peform with various different types of applicatoins."

    1. Re:Maybe it will be able to... by CoolGopher · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sure you mean a spelling checker. It's WoW that needs the spell check... combat resurrection for priests, anyone?!

  4. Windows HPC by Cruithne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh man, I *so* wanna put Windows HPC on this thing!

  5. Re:Yes but what .. by OneDeeTenTee · · Score: 5, Funny

    and what type of frame rate do you get with Quake?

    It speculatively pre-renders every possible frame for the next 90 seconds.

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