MS NBC meldt dat het Amerikaanse Ministerie van Defensie een nieuwe supercomputer van IBM heeft aangeschaft. De machine heeft de codenaam 'Blue Wave' en is een RS/6000 SP met 1336 Power3 processors, 1,336 Terabyte RAM en 17 Terabyte harddisk space. Blue Wave is 170 keer zo snel als zijn voorganger 'Deep Blue' en zal vooral ingezet worden voor maritiem onderzoek, zoals het voorspellen van gevaarlijke stormen:
THE $18 MILLION IBM system, code-named Blue Wave, is capable of processing 2 trillion calculations per second (2 terraflops), according to officials with the Armonk, N.Y., company.Powered by 1,336 copper-based Power 3 processors, the IBM RS/6000 SP system also features 1.336 terabytes of RAM and 17 terabytes of hard-disk memory.
“The benefits to DoD research and development will be enormous, enabling substantive advances in the science areas which are critical to the nation’s defense,” said Landry Bernard, technical director of the Naval Oceanographic Office at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where the system is located.
“While its primary mission is doing oceanographic modeling, it’s also going to be used in DoD research projects such as aircraft design (and) simulating battlefields,” said Peter Ungaro, IBM’s vice president of scientific and technical computing.
Thanks Mike Obispo voor de tip.
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