IBM Files Patent For 100 Petaflop Supercomputer

Data Center Knowledge (Sep 13 2011) Supercomputer

1. IBM has filed a patent for a massive supercomputing system that could reach 107 petaflops, more than 12 times the compute power of the current leader in the Top 500 supercomputer rankings. Powered by Blue Gene Last month IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/P and /Q systems that will use the A2 processing core and achieve upwards of 20 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second). The new patent describes the interconnected ASIC nodes using a five-dimensional torus network and is listed as being “capable of achieving 107 petaflop with up to 8,388,608 cores, or 524,288 nodes, or 512 racks is provided.” (Read Full Article)

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