As IBM continues to build new machines in its Blue Gene line of powerful supercomputers, the operating system of choice from now on will be Linux. In an announcement this week, the company said the ...

IBM Rochester still leads the pack in the race for computing speed with the two fastest machines in the world — by far. In the bi-annual Top 500 fastest computers in the world list released Monday, an ...

Supercomputing is more widely available to cost-conscious institutions thanks to IBM’s decision to lower the price of Blue Gene/L before releasing its newest – and more expensive – supercomputer. IBM ...

Datacenter Knowledge takes a sneak peek at IBM Blue Gene/Q supers in the works: the 10 petaflop Mira system at Argonne National Lab and the 20 petaflop Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore. The Power-7 chip ...

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