Germany’s
Jülich Research
Centre will take delivery in autumn of the world’s
second-fastest
supercomputer, a 65,000 processor, 220 teraflops
IBM Blue Gene/P.
The machine, which uses about a tenth of the energy used by
equivalent
supercomputers, will join two other supercomputers, the
46-teraflop Jülich Blue Gene/L, and the
nine-teraflop Jülich Multi Processor, to make Jülich Europe’s most
powerful supercomputer site and number two in the world.
The computers are available to some 200 research groups in
Europe to run simulations and compute models for communications
networks, materials science and particle physics to medicine and
environmental research.
The order, signed this week, is part of a strategy to get Europe
into the
petaflop era by
2009.
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