IBM claims 90% Top 20 Energy Efficient Supercomputers

greenm3.com Jul 12 2009 Servers , Supercomputer

IBM will release on Monday, July 13 a press release on its energy efficient supercomputers. I don’t have the link yet, but below is the text. Ironically, I just sat down with a person at ARM to discuss energy efficiency and he was mentioning how in 2005 he asked about energy use at a super computing conference, and people would think he was asking a stupid question. It’s great to see the question “how much energy does your supercomputer use?” is now a normal part of a purchase decision. Note this quote below. "Modern supercomputers can no longer focus only on raw performance," said David Turek, vice president, deep computing, IBM. "To be commercially viable these systems most also be energy efficient. IBM has a rich history of innovation that has significantly increased energy efficiency of our systems at all levels of the system that are designed to ...

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