IBM Retains Supercomputer Crown with BlueGene/L

June 28th, 2007

The BlueGene/L supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory topped the list of the world’s fastest computers once again, according to the new Top500 data released Wednesday. Built by IBM, BlueGene/L clocks in at 280.6 teraflops, or 280.6 trillion floating point operations per second.BlueGene/L is a workhorse machine for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). “Since BlueGene/L went into production in early 2006 it has performed beyond our expectations,” said Dona Crawford, associate director for computation at Lawrence Livermore, in a statement. “BlueGene/L’s architecture has proven suitable for a much broader range of applications than originally envisioned.”

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