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 20060905 Tuesday September 05, 2006

Hybrid Petaflops Cluster to Follow Sun's Lead

IBM is reportedly following Sun's lead in hybrid supercomputers to build the world's first Petaflops cluster for Los Alamos National Laboratory:

"The Roadrunner system, along with the Protein Explorer and the seventh-fastest supercomputer, Tokyo Institute of Technology's Tsubame system built by Sun Microsystems, illustrate a new trend in supercomputing: combining general-purpose processors with special-purpose accelerator chips." Full Story Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( September 05, 2006 07:37 PM ) Permalink

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