IBM has a lot of reasons to celebrate these days. TOP500 List of Supercomputers named the IBM's Blue Gene/L the world's fastest supercomputer. Blue Gene/L which is capable of a performance of 136.8 Teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second was developed by IBM and Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and is installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California and is planned to grow to a 360 Teraflop Blue Gene/L supercomputer when completed this summer

IBM has also another reason to celebrate the top released by TOP500 List of Supercomputers. IBM has achieved a new world record in supercomputing area by being the first company ever to have more then 51% of the total number of systems on the list.

IBM is the leading provider of both installed supercomputing systems with 259 systems as well as total aggregate supercomputing power, with a record total 976 Teraflops. IBM has 6 of the systems in the Top 10, including MareNostrum, Europe's most powerful supercomputer which is powered by IBM's POWER Microprocessor and eServer BladeCenter JS20 -- the only supercomputer based on blade server technology to ever be ranked in the global top 5.

According to numbers compiled by the TOP500 List of Supercomputers, IBM is the overwhelming leader in global supercomputing with 57.9 percent of the total processing power, compared to its closest rival, HP, with a mere 13.3%.

Other key indicators of IBM supercomputing leadership:

IBM leads the list with 259 of the 500 entries. HP is second with 131, followed by SGI(24), Dell (21) and Cray (16)
IBM Blue Gene/ LLNL is ranked #1, with 136.8TFlops
Watson Blue Gene is #2, with 91.29 TF
We lead Top10 with 6 entries
We lead with 10 of Top20
We lead with 58 of Top100
Fastest system in Europe (MareNostrum)
We lead with 976 TF (57.9% of total Flops)
14 Blue Gene Systems are listed
Most Linux Commodity Clusters with 193 of 304 (54.7%)!