BlueGene

Supercomputer and itsdevelopment projectof IBM corporation make. Investigating &announcingthe efficiency ranking of the super computer of the world, according to"TOP500Supercomputer Sites ", in 2005 November investigation "BlueGene/L" of the American Lawrence national laboratory 280TFLOPS (tera- FLOPS: Per second the operation of 280 trillion times feasibility) at computing speed it stands in the premier position.

As for BlueGene project, the NEC "terrestrial simulator " (35.86TFLOPS)5 timesor more detaching 2 ranks or less in 2002 June TOP500 investigation, accepting the fact that it reaches the premier position, the American energy ministry which aims toward premier position recapture (DoE: US Department of Energy)orderingto the IBM corporation, the project where development is started. In 2004 November with 32,768 processor systems recording 70.72TLOPS,pulling outthe terrestrial simulator, it becomes the worldwide top, aiming toward 360TFLPS which after that is the highest efficiency in regard to the design, ability reinforcement is continued. ... The continuation is read

With the cluster system of the close coupling which made PowerPC accumulate 440 which operates with 700MHz in large quantities, being maximum, to utilize 131,072 processors it is possible BlueGene/L. The smallest constitution unit the dual core processors2 of PowerPC440 andthe card wherememoryis mounted (4 processor systems) with, the board which 16 connects this can mount ononeframe up to 32. 2,048 processors (the core) is mounted by oneframe,the system develops combining this, but as for size of the frame there being about only 1 cubic meter,to be you cannot preparethe tend private building and the floor in the super computer and can install also the ?. In addition, because electric power consumption around efficiencyexisting is lessthan the super computer substantially, in the large-scale system also the system of power source and the exhaust heat etc. which become source of trouble may be simple.

The name which by the way, "blue gene" (the blue gene) with is saidhas been associatedwith the research which models the folding of the protein of the human making use of the super computer.

The BlueGene solutionof the IBMcorporation is called "eServer Blue Gene Solution," other than BlueGene/L presently at worldwide 2nd rank "Watson BlueGene" of IBM Thomas J. Watson research center, at 9 rank "Stella" of the Dutch university and at 12 rank the indian industrial technology research institute (the product entire research) is a life information science research center "Blue Protein" and so on, it is utilized at the many places of the world.