[geeks] Blue Gene/P

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> http://news.com.com/New+IBM+supercomputer+achieves+petaflop/2100-1010-6193211.html
> 
> Fully configured, 884,736 850MHz PPC450 cores in 216 cabinets yielding 3
> teraflops.

Or 3 Petaflops, even.  It doesn't take quite that many chips to reach 3 
Teraflops anymore.

There's a mistake in that article.  Neither University at Stony Brook 
nor Brookhaven National Laboratory are in Upstate New York.  They're 
both in Long Island.  About as Downstate as you can get.

Peace...  Sridhar