Monday, 11 September 2006
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The US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has selected IBM to design and build the worldâs first supercomputer to harness the power of the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell B.E.) processor aiming to produce a machine capable of a sustained speed of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop.
"This installation with Los Alamos and IBM demonstrates the compelling benefits from industry leaders innovating around an open platform; in this case IBM and AMD collaborating in the use of AMD Opteron and the Cell B.E. processor to build powerful systems for highly specific Los Alamos Labs workloads," said Marty Seyer, senior vice president, Commercial Segment, AMD. "This is an excellent demonstration of Torrenza in action - building on the performance and performance-per-watt advantages AMD delivers to create incredible value in leveraging HyperTransport technology to redefine how different systems, based on different processor platforms, can communicate with each other to solve some of the most complex computing problems."
IBM will begin shipping the new supercomputer to the DOE facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory later this year, with completion of the installation and acceptance anticipated in 2008. Based on the Power Architectureâ, the Cell B.E. processor was developed in collaboration with IBM, Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba Corporation.
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