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JUELICH, GERMANY and STUTTGART, GERMANY - 10 Feb 2009: The German research center Forschungszentrum Juelich has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM ) to develop the first supercomputer in Europe capable of one Petaflop, or one thousand trillion operations per second. IBM will partner with Juelich-based ...
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... to build a new Blue Gene/P System supercomputer for Europe. It will mark the first time that a supercomputer capable of delivering petaflops of performance will be located outside of the U.S."With speeds over a Petaflop, this new Juelich-based supercomputer offers the processing ability of more than 200,000 laptop computers," explains Professor Thomas Lippert , lead scientist of the Juelich supercomputing center. "In addition to raw power, this new system will be among the most energy efficient in the world." The Blue Gene/P System will house 294,912 processor, 144TB of ...
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