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| | Deep Blue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Deep Blue was a chess playing computer developed by IBM. | | | The Deeper Blue chess computer which defeated Kasparov in 1997 could search to a depth of 12 ply. | | | Deep Blue was the first computer system to win a chess game against a reigning world champion (Garry Kasparov) under regular time controls. |
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| | Blue Gene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Blue Gene/L Compute nodes use a minimal operating system supporting a single user program. | | | Each Blue Gene/L node is attached to three parallel communications networks: a 3D toroidal network for peer-to-peer communication between compute nodes, a collective network for collective communication, and a global interrupt network for fast barriers. | | | On September 29, 2004, IBM announced that a Blue Gene/L prototype at IBM Rochester (Minnesota) had overtaken NEC's Earth Simulator as the fastest computer in the world, with a speed of 36.01 TFLOPS on the Linpack benchmark, beating Earth Simulator's 35.86 TFLOPS. |
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| | IBM Research Projects Blue Gene |
| | Blue Gene's massive computing power will initially be used to model the folding of human proteins, making this fundamental study of biology the company's first computing "grand challenge" since the Deep Blue experiment. | | | Blue Gene/L is expected to operate at about 200 teraflops (200 trillion operations per second) which is larger than the total computing power of the top 500 supercomputers in the world today. | | | As part of the expansion of the Blue Gene project, IBM is actively pursuing a partner to design a companion machine to Blue Gene/L targeted to data-intensive applications commonly found in commercial computing. |
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| | alphaWorks : Task Layout Optimizer for Blue Gene : Overview |
| | Blue Gene/L is a massively parallel computer, consisting of 65,536 computation nodes configured in a 64 x 32 x 32 torus. | | | The algorithms used for mapping are based on the paper Optimizing Task Layout on the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. | | | The purpose of Task Layout Optimizer for Blue Gene is to provide efficient means for mapping MPI tasks to nodes in a Blue Gene Supercomputer. |
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| | IBM details Blue Gene supercomputer CNET News.com |
| | IBM is building the processors for the first member of the Blue Gene family, Blue Gene/L, and expects to use them this year in a machine that will be a microcosm of the eventual full-fledged Blue Gene/L due by the end of 2004, Pulleyblank said. | | | Blue Gene/L is an exercise in powers of two, starting with each of the 65,536 compute nodes. | | | IBM has begun building the chips that will be used in the first Blue Gene, a machine dubbed Blue Gene/L that will run Linux and have more than 65,000 computing nodes, said Bill Pulleyblank, director of IBM's Deep Computing Institute and the executive overseeing the project. |
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| | Blue Gene/L Job Management Homepage |
| | Blue Gene/L is also part of IBM's research in "autonomic computing", an initiative to design computer systems that are self-healing, self-managing and self-configuring. | | | Blue Gene/L will be at least 15 times faster (operating 200 trillion operations per second), 15 times more power efficient and consume about 50 times less space per computation than today's fastest supercomputers. | | | Our strategy with respect to system management on this scale is based on an hierarchical organization of the machine.We are also developing allocation methods that take into account the particular network topology of BG/L. We will gradually validate our approaches in simulations, than on smaller scale prototypes, and ultimately on the full-scale production BG/L computer. |
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| | IBM eServer Blue Gene solution |
| | Blue Gene joins IBM's broad portfolio of Deep Computing solutions that includes UNIX® symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems, Linux clusters, high-speed interconnects, storage, workstations and an extensive collection of software tools. | | | The addition of an innovative solution like Blue Gene accompanied by a product roadmap that stretches to Petaflop performance before the end of the decade demonstrates a significant commitment to the Deep Computing community and the researchers who are pursuing solutions to the most important challenges. | | | The level of performance provided by Blue Gene can enable a tremendous increase in the scale of simulations beyond what is possible with other supercomputers. |
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| | Blue Gene supercomputer to be 'smashingly' equipped for huge modelling task of protein folding |
| | The Blue Gene project team expects a tremendous gain in performance will be made possible by the first major revolution in how computers are built since the mid-1980s. | | | The computational power of today's computers and methods is far from adequate to solve this matter but Dr. Pulleybank introduced to the audience the Blue Gene project, which was launched in late 1999 at IBM Research. | | | Third, it will make the computer self-stabilising and self-healing, meaning that the Blue Gene system will automatically be able to overcome failures of individual processors and computing threads. |
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| | BW Online December 26, 2002 Blue Gene: IBM's Dream Machine |
| | The payoff for IBM will be applying what it learns from the Blue Gene project to the design and development of all its computers. | | | Indeed, Blue Gene is associated with another research project at IBM called autonomic computing. | | | In a way, Blue Gene is so massive and complex that it's autonomic computing in a box. |
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| | IBM Chooses Linux for 'Blue Gene' Supercomputer - NewsFactor Network |
| | At the time, IBM said Blue Gene would be 1,000 times more powerful than "Deep Blue," the computer that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. | | | The decision to use Linux, according to IBM Research's software architect for the Blue Gene project, Jose Moreira, was motivated by a desire to use an operating system with which users were familiar. | | | The petaflop computer, which can calculate 1 quadrillion operations per second, is 100 times more powerful than the fastest computers available, according to IBM. |
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| | Salon Health & Body Blue Gene |
| | On Monday, IBM unveiled a $100 million initiative to build a computer that will be 1,000 times more powerful than Deep Blue, the machine that humbled chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, and 2 million times more powerful than your average desktop PC. | | | Researchers say the computer, nicknamed Blue Gene, could be operational within five years. | | | This will be the first time that a machine of such immense power has been unleashed on a single scientific problem, and Dr. Paul Horn, senior vice president of IBM Research, believes that Blue Gene is destined to change the way doctors do business in the future. |
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| | Blue Gene super to simulate key part of the human brain - Computer Business Review |
| | Under a new project being jokingly referred to as "Blue Brain", IBM is working with the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland to simulate the electrochemical processing in the neocortical complex of the human brain. | | | To do so on the Lintel cluster that EPFL currently has is not possible, and both IBM Research and EPFL believe that the unique architecture of the Linux-based Blue Gene supercomputer will fit well with the simulation software that EPFL will need to create to simulate this neocortex section. | | | If you don't know what the neocortex is, it is the ripply outside of the brain that all mammals have and that is considered the center of intelligence and symbolic processing; you might know it as the cerebrum. |
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| | IBM opens Blue Gene/L utility center in Minnesota - Computer Business Review |
| | That is a lot of computing power to cram in one space, which is why IBM designed Blue Gene in the first place. | | | Back in March 2004, IBM was showing off a prototype deskside Blue Gene/L machine that had 64 Blue Gene server nodes (128 cores) in a deskside box, and the company was suggesting that this machine would be sold to developers to give them a chance to play around with the new Blue Gene architecture. | | | Solomon said he was not at liberty to say what the computing capacity cost is on the Blue Gene utility, except to say that it is "significantly lower" than for on-demand capacity for X86 clusters. |
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Supercomputer breaks speed record |
| | The IBM Blue Gene/L is only a prototype and is one 5th the speed of the full version, due to be completed for the Livermore labs in 2005. | | | IBM's senior vice president of technology and manufacturing, Nick Donofrio, believes that by 2006, Blue Gene will be capable of petaflop computing. | | | Until the official list is published, however, Blue Gene/L's position will not be confirmed, and there are expected to be some other new entries. |
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| | Blue Gene and the PetaFLOP promise: ZDNet Australia: News: Hardware |
| | IBM, whose Deep Blue technology succeeded in battling world chess champion Gary Kasparov to a draw several years ago, used that specialised technology as the basis of the five-year, US$400 million RandD effort that begat Blue Gene and finally broke Earth Simulator's lock on the top spot. | | | Scientists and researchers are finding Blue Gene's power so appealing, in fact, that IBM is now mass-producing the systems (in a relative sense; only 16 of the machines currently exist) from its Rochester, Minnesota server factory. | | | With 32 additional Blue Gene nodes soon set to double Blue Gene/L's performance to 270 teraFLOPs, experts are now pondering HPC's next goal: the petaFLOP computer, offering 1000 teraFLOPs - enough to handle impossibly complex computations such as modelling of protein folding within the body. |
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| | IBM's Blue Gene Breaks New Research Ground |
| | Blue Gene/L is also part of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)'s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program, which IBM has been a partner of since 2001. | | | Calling AIST's choice of Blue Gene/L over other systems "validation that we are getting this right," Pulleyblank said the supercomputer will be 24 times more powerful compared to the CBRC's current computer systems. | | | The NNSA will be installing a very large Blue Gene/L system in 2005 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to advance understanding of the behavior of materials. |
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| | IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer to run Linux |
| | Blue Gene/L is expected to operate at about 200 trillion floating-point operations per second -- larger than the total computing power of the top 500 supercomputers in the world today, according to IBM. | | | Blue Gene/L will also include IBM systems that allow complex computers to do self-repairing, self-managing and self-configuring, making them easier to manage and set up. | | | Takako Yamakura, a spokesman for IBM Research, said the early focus in the Blue Gene project was on hardware. |
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| | CIO Asia - IBM offers Blue Gene on demand |
| | The new Blue Gene-based offering is a higher-end addition to IBM's existing line of Deep Computing Capacity On Demand services that lets users access processing power to speed a particular research project or to meet short-term spikes in computing requirements. | | | Similar to other on-demand offerings, the Blue Gene service is priced based on the number of CPUs used and the computational time consumed. | | | An important factor as to when to use the Blue Gene service is how fast a company needs computational results. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Mission to build a simulated brain begins |
| | The “Blue Brain” project, a collaboration between IBM and a Swiss university team, will involve building a custom-made supercomputer based on IBM’s Blue Gene design. | | | Using this database the initial phase of Blue Brain will model the electrical structure of neocortical columns - neural circuits that are repeated throughout the brain. | | | An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level, was launched on Monday. |
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| | IBM Research Press Resources IBM and EPFL Join Forces to Uncover the Secrets of Cognitive Intelligence |
| | “Blue Gene is by far the fastest supercomputing system in the world, giving scientists access to unprecedented levels of computing power,” said Tilak Agerwala, Vice President of Systems, IBM Research. | | | As part of the agreement with IBM, some of Blue Gene’s time will also be allotted to other ambitious research projects. | | | Over the next two years scientists from both organizations will work together using the huge computational capacity of IBM& eServer Blue Gene supercomputer to create a detailed model of the circuitry in the neocortex – the largest and most complex part of the human brain. |
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Fastest supercomputer gets faster |
| | The Blue Gene/L is due to be completed for the Livermore labs in 2005. | | | Each rack holds 1,024 processors, yet the chips are the same as those found in high-end computers on the High Street. | | | The cluster of 1,008 computers in New Zealand can be rented on-demand, on a per hour, per processor basis. |
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| | BW Online November 7, 2001 A Talk with the Brain behind Blue Gene |
| | Pulleyblank, director of IBM's Deep Computing Institute, which coordinates research in the field of high-performance computing, was given the Blue Gene project in January, 2000, and named director of exploratory server systems. | | | Nearly two years ago, IBM declared that it was going to tackle the Mount Everest of computer projects: A five-year, $100 million research effort to build the world's fastest supercomputer to solve one of the thorniest problems in biology -- and, in the process, some of the toughest tasks in computing. | | | And work is continuing on Blue Gene/L's big brother, but the machine developed with Livermore is expected to be completed in 2005 and will be used for simulations in such field as aging, explosions, and fire research. |
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| | Big Blue's Baby Blue Gene Supercomputer |
| | Turek said the original Blue Gene plan, when it was unveiled in 1999, called for a forest of computers in racks or cubes that could be linked together as sort of a "modular" supercomputer. | | | Partridge said it is possible Blue Gene/L could be commercialized for areas such as seismic engineering or fluid dynamics, and sell some units among the high performance technical computing arena, but wondered whether or not it wouldn't interview with IBM's current Linux supercluster products, powered by Opteron, Xeon and Itanium processors. | | | To wit, Blue Gene/L is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)'s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program. |
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| | The world's most powerful supercomputer |
| | Blue Gene/L, built by computer giant IBM has been named as the world's most powerful computer, after it reached a peak processing speed of 136.8 teraflops (trillion calculations per second), in testing. | | | Incidentally, the second most powerful computer on the list is also a Blue Gene design known as BGW and based at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York. | | | This however, has fewer processors and has a top processing speed of only 91.2 teraflops. |
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| | Blue Gene Watson ready to roll |
| | Big Blue recently reached an agreement with the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory to enhance the computing power at Argonne's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program with compute cycles on IBM's Blue Gene/Watson system (BGW). | | | According to IBM Deep Computing vice president Dave Turek, Argonne and IBM are developing a plan for researchers to request computation time on the BGW to explore a range of fields including life sciences, hydrodynamics, materials sciences, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and fluid dynamics -- as well as for business applications. | | | IBM hopes this test of Blue Gene's enormous computing capabilities will boost scientific research around the world and raise IBM's already impressive profile in the supercomputing space. |
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| | Blue Gene Comes In At the Top of Computer Heap |
| | Blue Gene is IBM's top performer in the super computer market. | | | The computer is much higher than the second, smaller Blue Gene system coming in at 91.2 teraflops. | | | IBM pulled 6 of the top ten computers and 5 of those were Blue Genes. |
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| | Wired News: Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite |
| | Livermore researchers hope to use Blue Gene/L to simulate a range of complex physical phenomena, from cosmological phenomenon like stellar binary pairs to the aging of high explosives. | | | Commissioned by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Blue Gene/L will be based on 130,000 processors. | | | The unit -- described by IBM as a small-scale prototype of Blue Gene/L -- is already ranked 73rd in the new Top500 list. |
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| | IBM to invest $100 million in 'Blue Gene' supercomputer |
| | IBM today said it would invest $100 million in Blue Gene, a supercomputer that will have 500 times the computing power of today's machines. | | | The first project IBM intends to tackle with such a computer will be modeling how human proteins are folded, IBM says. | | | The supercomputer will also be able to repair itself, fixing failures of individual processors and computing threads, IBM says. |
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| | BBP Blue Brain Project |
| | The Blue Brain Project was launched by the Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland and IBM, USA in May, 2005. | | | The Blue Brain Project marks the beginning of a long task to study how the brain works by building very large scale computer models | | | Our first objective is to create a cellular level, software replica of the Neocortical Column for real-time simulations. |
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| | IBM puts Blue Gene on tap |
| | IBM is making its Blue Gene supercomputer, ranked the fastest in the world, available on demand so that high-performance computing customers can get the processing power they need when they need it without having to worry about high upfront costs or management headaches. | | | End users can tap into Blue Gene to run Linux-based workloads via a dedicated VPN into a new Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, Minn. IBM develops and builds Blue Gene in Rochester, says David Gelardi, vice president of Deep Computing Capacity on Demand at IBM. | | | In November, IBM made a commercial version of Blue Gene available for about $2 million to customers that want to bring the processing powerhouse into their data centers. |
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| | Big Blue makes Baby Blue Gene |
| | Big Blue has a plan to use a program called Blue Matter on the beast, which will be used to run protein dynamics simulations important to drug development. | | | Currently this software is part of the main Blue Gene project, but IBM wants to shift this out to something a little smaller. | | | AN OLD FIRM which is now a computer maker of bits and bobs called IBM has developed a smaller version of its fastest supercomputer Blue Gene. |
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| | Technology News: News: Big Blue Opens Blue Gene to Partners |
| | Eunice said broadening access to Blue Gene is a good move for Big Blue, considering that parallel systems providers have had difficulty finding enough skilled people in the world to program the machines. | | | Our global directory of 87,000 locations in 26 countries is a terrific tool for mobile computer users. | | | IBM, working with its business partners, is making Blue Gene applicable for workloads across a variety of disciplines. |
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| | IBM offers Blue Gene on Demand for commercial use - Computerworld |
| | In an announcement, IBM said it will offer access to Blue Gene supercomputing power through its Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, Minn. Enterprise customers can get extra computing power remotely when they need it, paying by the hour and number of processors used. | | | "Blue Gene is the kind of technology -- if it's appropriate for your application -- that can really speed up a process," said David Gelardi, vice president of IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand program. | | | Lance Westerhoff, chief software engineer at QuantumBio Inc., a pharmaceutical software company in State College, Pa., said his company has been working with IBM to allow customers to use its drug-dependency analysis software on Blue Gene. |
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| | Technology imitates life: IBM’s Blue Gene to model human brain |
| | This computer is known as one of the fastest super-computers in the world for its computational abilities. | | | Known as the ‘Blue Brain’ project, the effort will involve IBM’s super-computer ‘Blue Gene’ and biological research data from Lausanne-based Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). | | | An upgraded version of IBM’s custom-designed eServer Blue Gene will be central to the project. |
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| | Computing for Biology, IBM-BNL, Blue-Gene, Science Workshop 2003 |
| | As the project and the machine architecture have evolved, there has been increasing interest in exploring the application of the computational power enabled by the Blue Gene project to a broader range of scientific problems in biology as well as other disciplines. | | | In December 1999, IBM announced the start of a multi-year effort to build a massively parallel computer to be applied to the study of biomolecular phenomena such as protein folding. | | | The Blue Gene project has two main goals: (i) advancing our understanding of biologically important processes via large scale simulation, particularly the |
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| | IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights Tech News on ZDNet |
| | IBM also is working on another design, Blue Gene/C. Pulleyblank acknowledges that its chips have many more processors on each slice of silicon, but otherwise remains mum. | | | The Blue Gene/L machines--three of which have been sold so far--are an unusual design based on a variation of IBM's Power family of processors. | | | Of the systems on the latest Top500 list, Big Blue built 224 and Hewlett-Packard built 140, giving IBM back the lead it lost in 2001. |
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| | IBM Redbooks Unfolding the IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution |
| | Blue Gene Solution is a commercial version of the research project, and Blue Gene/L represents a new entrant in the IBM Deep Computing Portfolio. | | | This IBM Redbook will help you to design and create a solution for migrating and porting existing applications to run on the IBM | | | Currently, he leads technical teams that deliver IBM Redbook solutions on pSeries clustering technologies and technical workshops worldwide.");newWindow.document.write(" |
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| | IBM's Blue Gene Claims Fastest Supercomputer |
| | Blue Gene/L knocked NEC's Earth Simulator from the top spot on the Top 500 list for world's fastest computers. | | | While it is true many supercomputers are used to help map out defense systems for nations, IBM is proud of the fact that Blue Gene/L is geared toward broad applicability. | | | Armonk, N.Y.'s IBM achieved the milestone during a Linpack benchmark test for mathematical computations at IBM's production facility in Rochester, Minn., according to an IBM statement. |
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| | Here is a simplified explanation of the genetic activity which results in a Blue | | | As a result, a Blue dog can be solid Blue, | | | are two examples of Blues who carry the solid Black recessive. |
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| | BetaNews IBM Delivers 'Teraflop in a Box' |
| | The full scale Blue Gene/L machine, being built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is expected by IBM to top the list when work is complete in 2005. | | | By reducing power consumption, cost, and space requirements, IBM researchers are seeking to bring massively parallel computing within a feasible cost for take up by science and industry. | | | The recent announcement is simply the precursor for this much more ambitious goal, and a showcase of the fruit of IBM's research and development efforts. |
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| | Human gene may produce blue rose - Tuesday, 05/25/04 |
| | ''Well, the bacteria turned blue,'' said Guengerich, professor of biochemistry and director of the Center in Molecular Toxicology at Vanderbilt. | | | ''We knew people have been interested in making a blue rose for years, so we thought if we could move these human genes into flowers, we might come up with one.'' | | | ''There aren't any true blues, and there aren't any true blacks,'' Spiers said, referring to petal color. |
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| | Wired News: IBM's Fastest of the Fast |
| | Blue Gene, which IBM said will be 1,000 times faster than Deep Blue, the computer that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, could be operational within five years, researchers said. | | | The development of "Blue Gene," a new RS/6000 computer capable of more than 1 quadrillion operations per second, will cost in the neighborhood of US$100 million, IBM said. | | | Payback time: Customers of three major US banks will have a new way to pay bills online, thanks to a billing system developed by Sun Microsystems and Netscape, a subsidiary of America Online. |
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| | EETimes.com - IBM offers Blue Gene as commercial supercomputer |
| | IBM said the eServer Blue Gene processing power can also be rented from one of its Deep Computing On Demand Centers in the United States and Europe. | | | "The Blue Gene technology allows us to introduce a new class of high performance computing capability to industry-specific business challenges," said Colin Parris, vice president, eServer Product Management, IBM. | | | The IBM eServer Blue Gene is available from 1 to 64 racks, with 1,024 dual-processor nodes per rack. |
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| | Blue Gene Determining the human gene |
| | Nicknamed Blue Gene it operates by 1 Quadrillion Ops per second (one peta flop) and is a thousand times faster than Deep Blue. | | | IBM releases a follow up of Deep Blue. | | | The computer will be used for modelling human proteins: to be exactly the folding of human proteins. |
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| | Brother Blue |
| | Fancy that, it is possible to hold the ideas of evolution and a creator in mind at the same time. | | | The Vatican weighs in on the "Intelligent Design" debate with an intelligent statement. | | | E-mail Gene anything, but he is always looking for more links to add to the Help section. |
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| | BetaNews IBM Donates Blue Gene Time to US DOE |
| | INCITE stands for Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, and is open to all researchers and organizations. | | | The computing power would augment Argonne's pre-existing capacity for the DOE's INCITE program. | | | Blue Gene could be used by the researchers for large projects in fields such as aerospace, automotive engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, energy or physics, IBM said. |
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| | IBM Research Press Resources IBM Blue Gene/L Supercomputer project |
| | IBM has a team of life sciences researchers at the T.J. Watson Research Center developing Blue Matter - the application software used to run simulations of protein dynamics on the Blue Gene/L hardware. | | | Artist's rendition of what the final Blue Gene/L machine will look like after it is installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in early 2005. | | | For the first time, the Blue Gene Science team at IBM Research is running production science experiments on membrane proteins on a 512-node Blue Gene prototype system. |
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http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/rsc.bluegene_2004.html
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