BlueGene/L Puts the Hammer Down

Posted by Hemos on Thursday March 24, 2005 @07:29PM 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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Wait another year... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-24 20:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

That's like, what, 527 Cell processors?
Obviously that number's based on an unrealistic, 100% efficient scaling factor. But still. The 137 TFlop is coming from 64,000 processors.
It's fun to think about what's just around the corner.