Most Expensive Supercomputer in the US
Written by: tom Filed Under: Electronics, United States on September 30th, 2006IBM’s BlueGene/L machine is both the fastest and most expensive supercomputer ever built in the United States. It was built at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The supercomputer is built from 64 racks of Blue Gene servers, each of which contains 1,024 700MHz dual-core PowerPC processors.
Specifications listed on LLNL’s website about their BlueGene/L system
are as follows:
- 65,536 compute nodes, each targeted for 2.8 GFlop/s peak
- Chip multiprocessor with 4MB L3 cache on chip
- High-bandwidth low-latency 3D torus and combining tree networks
- 32 terabytes of memory
- High-performance kernel on compute nodes, Linux on I/O nodes
- Hardware support for Message Passing Interface collectives
BlueGene/L currently tops the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list with a Linpack performance benchmark of 280.6 TFlop/s.
IBM sells a single 1,024 processor BlueGene rack for approximately $2,000,000. The BlueGene/L supercomputer was built by IBM for the DoE along with the ASCI Purple supercomputer that benchmarks at 63.39 TFlop/s as part of a $290,000,000 contract. The supercomputers will both be used for nuclear weapons simulations.
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would it fit in my room?
could it run flight simulator??
yeop i’ll have 2 because we all wat a computer that can to 280 trillion operation a second ….. now that could do my maths homework quickly
OK SO THEY SPENT ALL THAT MONEY ON THAT COMPUTER AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE USEING IT FOR nuclear weapons simulations YEA RIGHT THATS BULL AS IF THEY WOULD TELL US
IS IS PROB WORSE THAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS RESEARCH SCARY
I think its not for our use because it is very expensive. Americans are going very fast and they must do something for undeveloped countries
As long as it can play Minesweeper ~.^
[...] performance. This gave it the top spot on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list until 2004 when IBM’s BlueGene/L supercomputer took its place using an architecture that cost less than half as much to [...]
dude um what do you u do with 32 terabytes of ram seriously and it dosent even tell you the hardrive info its prob like 3000 terabytes
as long as it has a floppy disc drive @(^_^)@
“The supercomputers will both be used for nuclear weapons simulations”. YEA RIGHT. Bet the first thing they did with it was run SOLITAIRE!