| IBM will develop a new generation of commercial supercomputers which it says will run 15 times faster than today’s most powerful machines — while consuming only one-fiftieth the energy.
It will be based on Blue Gene, the $100 million experimental supercomputer that IBM is building to tackle large-scale biomolecular calculations. Blue Gene is unlikely to be finished before 2005.
IBM recently announced a new partnership with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California to build a machine called Blue Gene/L - the L can stand for Livermore or Low-power or Lite, IBM researchers say.
Although slightly slower than the original Blue Gene design, Blue Gene/L will have more computing power than the 500 top supercomputers in the world combined. | 