September 29th, 2004
36 Tflops! Holy!
IBM has broken the supercomputing speed record with it’s Blue Gene/L prototype producing 36 teraflops compared to NEC’s Earth Simulator which chugs away at 35.86 teraflops. Holy!
Compare that to India’s 1 teraflop Param Padma which is scalable to 16 teraflops. C-DAC has been offering these on a build-to-order basis too. Quite cheap by international standards.
But 36 teraflops is something. And the IBM prototype is just 1/8 size of the real Blue Gene/L!