IBM Supercomputers Officially World's Fastest

It looks like IBM has developed a real passion for supercomputers. Thus, according to the top 500 of the world's most advanced computing systems, IBM is going to get the gold and silver medals in this competition, but it will also have 6 representatives in the top 10.

And the winner (and undefeated champion, because it has occupied the same position last year) is the BlueGene/L system installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, which has reached a new benchmark performance of 136.9 teraflops, compared to 70.72 teraflops last year.

The second place goes to the Watson Blue Gene system, a supercomputer which has just been installed in Yorktown, New York. It will be used for scientific and business applications, and has obtained a result of 91.2 teraflops in benchmark tests.

Places three and four belong to a Silicon Graphics system operating at the NASA Ames Research Center in California and to NEC Earth Simulator from Japan, the champion defeated by BlueGene/L.

And as a piece of interesting information, we can say that the Linux fans will be very proud of the fact that 8 out of the first 10 supercomputers are using this open-source operating system.