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Watson Blue Gene

06/14/2005 2:12 PM

IBM plans to announce today that it has built a new supercomputer it expects to become ranked among the fastest in the world. Watson Blue Gene, or BGW, as it is called at IBM, has a peak processing speed of 115 teraflops, which means it performs 115 trillion calculations per second. Its sustained performance is 91.29 trillion calculations per second.
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BRodda
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3 months

06/14/2005 2:27 PM

So it only took them 3 months to design and build this thing??? That's very scary considering it is the 2nd fastest computer in the world and costs about $40 million to build for other customers, based on the price of about $2 million per rack of processors. The thing is a power hog though costing just shy of 1/2 a million dollars a year just for the power to run it.

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