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The IBM Nautilus supercomputer operates at some 536 Mflops per second--that means 536 million floating operations in less time than it has taken you to read this sentence—per single Watt of energy use. This makes the Nautilus the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world, according to The Green 500 report (
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5/8/2009
The IBM Nautilus supercomputer operates at some 536 Mflops per second--that means 536 million floating operations in less time than it has taken you to read this sentence—per single Watt of energy use. This makes the Nautilus the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world, according to The Green 500 report (www.green500.org) released in November 2008. The system, which is based on IBM QS22 Blade servers and runs Linux, is installed at Poland’s Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, the University of Warsaw, where it is used for astrophysics, bioinformatics, fluid flow simulations, and weather forecasting.
Speaking of supercomputers, the U.S. Dept. of Energy will be awarding 1.3-billion supercomputer processor hours through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program for large-scale, computationally intensive projects: those requiring petascale computing—that is, quadrillion calculations per second. To learn more, take a few seconds (seems so slow, doesn’t it?) and check out
http://hpc.science.doe.gov
