Introducing the Jason Lopez Report Podcast - Shooting for the Moon with Blue Gene L from IBM

05:22 | Admin | Nov 18th, 2005 12:37am |

Please welcome Jason Lopez as a new PodTech podcast series - Jason Lopez Reports. Jason will be hosting his own series, whilst covering a range of topics for The Lopez Report on the PodTech.Network.

I’d like to personally welcome Jason to the PodTech Network. He’s a real seasoned pro and great guy. We look forward to seeing his podcasts here at PodTech. More importantly I’m looking forward to learning from his 20 years of experience in media. Welcome to PodTech Jason.

IBM’s Blue Gene L supercomputer doesn’t represent a mere small step but a giant leap in computing power.

Today we take a field trip to Lawrence Livermore National Labs where IBM’s Blue Gene L was unveiled about two weeks ago. The supercomputer had been under construction for about a year. But Blue Gene is so fast that even in the early stages of installation it was the world’s fastest machine. It has performed at 280 teraflops and is expected to hit 360. Supercomputer rankings released this week from Top 500.org show that IBM took the top three spots on the list. In second was another Blue Gene computer operating in New York. In third was the ASCI Purple Cluster, which runs in a next-door facility to the top machine at Lawrence Livermore.

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