ZDNet: DOE to Trumpet Blue Gene/L Speed

"The U.S. Department of Energy plans to unveil test results on Thursday that will likely place IBM's Blue Gene/L as the fastest supercomputer in the world, CNET News.com has learned.

"The agency will announce that Blue Gene/L performed more than 70 trillion calculations per second, or 70 teraflops, sources familiar with the test said. The speed measurement took place at an IBM lab in Rochester, Minn., where the system is being kept before its move to the agency's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California next year..."

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