When it comes to supercomputers, IBM is definitely the king. IBM announced that a new supercomputer is ready to be introduced at Big Blue's research headquarters in Yorktown Heights NY.

Watson Blue Gene Systems is the world's most powerful privately owned computer and it has an average processing speed of 91.29 teraflops (trillion calculations per second).

According to David Turek, IBM's vice president for Deep Computing, Watson Blue gene is three times faster and it cost one-ninth the cost of the ``Earth Simulator'' built by NEC Corp. and once the world's fastest computer.

"IBM researchers will use BGW to accelerate discovery in a variety of disciplines," said Tilak Agerwala, vice president of Systems at IBM Research. "Researchers, scientists, engineers and inventors can now ask more questions, test more theories, try more designs, and simulate more conditions than has been possible before."

IBM will use the Watson Blue Gene and smaller supercomputers to spur mainframe sales, which fell 16 percent in the first quarter.

Blue Gene computers are faster and smaller than competing machines and can add computing power as needed, said Stacey Quandt, an analyst for researcher Robert Frances Group. All eight sold so far went to universities and government agencies.