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Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer

November 5, 2004 Sixteen racks of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer can perform 70.7 trillion calculations per second. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputing, supercomputer, IBM Corp., photograph

Climate research center buys a Blue Gene

April 14, 2005 National Center for Atmospheric Research becomes the newest customer of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. TAGS: Blue Gene, Blue Gene/L, supercomputer, IBM Corp.

Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record

October 27, 2005 Blue Gene/L already is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the Top500 list that ranks such machines. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputer, Cray Inc., teraflop, IBM POWER5, supercomputing, IBM Corp., calculation

Blue Gene/L tops own supercomputing record

March 23, 2005 Machine doubles its performance by doubling its size. Put another 135.5 trillion notches in the handle, for the number of calcs per second. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputing, rack, supercomputer, IBM Corp., calculation

IBM adds Blue Gene to rental program

March 11, 2005 Blue Gene/L supercomputer is added to a program that rents processing power, Big Blue is expected to announce Friday. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputing, Blue Gene, IBM Corp., supercomputer, computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD, Linux, server, HP

IBM claims fastest supercomputer title--for now

September 29, 2004 Sure, 36.01 trillion calculations per second is pretty fast. But some say SGI could eventually beat that. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, Dave Turek, supercomputer, teraflop, Silicon Graphics Inc., IBM Corp., Apple Xserve, Intel Itanium, calculation, NEC Electronics Corp., Apple Computer, Intel

Second Blue Gene system rises up the ranks

June 13, 2005 A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer posts speed results of 91.3 trillion calculations per second, IBM plans to announce. TAGS: Blue Gene, Blue Gene/L, teraflop, supercomputer, supercomputing, IBM Corp., rank, calculation

New supercomputer finds home in Europe

March 14, 2006 Research center in Germany hopes Julicher Blue Gene/L can help stem the brain drain of top scientists to U.S. TAGS: supercomputer, Blue Gene, Blue Gene/L, Germany, Europe, modeling, scientist, IBM Corp., U.S.

IBM sells Blue Gene for brain research

June 5, 2005 Big Blue sells a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. Images: Mapping the neocortex TAGS: Blue Gene, Blue Gene/L, brain, supercomputer, IBM Corp., project

U.K.'s fastest supercomputer unveiled

January 15, 2008 Hector handles 63 trillion calculations per second, the equivalent processing power of 12,000 desktops. But it can't touch Blue Gene/L. TAGS: supercomputer, teraflop, Blue Gene/L, calculation, U.K.

IBM's Roadrunner set to smash supercomputing marks

November 12, 2007 Top500 list of speediest machines is now out, but upcoming IBM computer will top a quadrillion operations a second--more than double what we can do today. TAGS: teraflop, supercomputing, supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, IBM Corp., India, operation, AMD, Intel, HP

New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop

June 26, 2007 Big Blue breaks into the quadrillion calculation range with new Blue Gene/P supercomputer. TAGS: supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, rack, IBM Corp., operation, IBM PowerPC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Germany

Week in pictures: Blue Gene, thinking green

October 28, 2005 roundup Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record. Also: "Lost" online, "green" buildings, speaking tongues with tech and Firefox love fest. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, Blue Gene, supercomputer, iMesh, RFID, identity theft, VCR, Firefox, Dell, Web browser

New supercomputers overhaul top ranks

June 22, 2005 Stays at the top of supercomputer hill are becoming increasingly short-lived, as five of the top 10 systems are new to the list. Photos: The fastest supercomputer TAGS: teraflop, Dave Turek, supercomputer, Blue Gene, Sandia National Laboratories, Blue Gene/L, IBM Corp., Intel Xeon, Intel Itanium, AMD Opteron, HP, Apple Computer, Intel