"IBM announced performance results Friday for a new Spanish supercomputer that won't top the company's Blue Gene/L machine but that does use more mainstream technology.
"As expected, the machine, called MareNostrum and built for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, can sustain a pace of 20.5 trillion calculations per second, or 20.5 teraflops. That's considerably less than the 70.7 teraflops posted by IBM's Blue Gene/L, but MareNostrum uses conventional blade servers instead of relying on customized and somewhat exotic technology..."
