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CNET News: Blue Gene Gets to Its Roots at Japan Lab

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Stephen Shankland
Sep 7, 2004

“IBM has sold a Blue Gene/L supercomputer to a Japanese lab to
investigate the shapes of proteins–the task that inspired the Blue
Gene program in the first place.

“The new machine, to be used at Japan’s National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) should be capable
of sustained performance of 17.2 trillion calculations per second,
IBM plans to announce Tuesday…”


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