IBM to send blazing fast supercomputer to Energy Dept.

IBM
to send blazing fast supercomputer to Energy Dept.
This story has been
edited since it was published. See below for details.
IBM plans to announce
on Tuesday that it will supply the world's fastest supercomputer to the U.S.
Department of Energy in the next few years, according to numerous reports.
Not only will the machine, called Sequoia, be the fastest supercomputer to
date, it will blow the current record-holder out of the water. IBM's Roadrunner,
located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, was
the first system to reach 1.026 petaflops (a petaflop is equal to a quadrillion
calculations per second; the "flops" stands for floating point operations per
second). But only seven months after the Roadrunner took top honors on a twice-yearly list of the world's fastest
supercomputers, IBM is announcing that its successor will outdo it by an order
of magnitude. Sequoia will be able to work at a staggering 20 petaflops, the
equivalent of the computing power of 2 million laptops according
to Reuters.
IBM says it plans to deliver the Sequoia to the Energy
Department for use at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The
supercomputer will run simulations to test the soundness of the nation's
stockpile of nuclear weaponry, according to the IDG News
Service.

Editor's note: When it was initially published, this story
cited data from another publication about Sequoia's energy usage. Several
readers doubted the validity of the data, and I have not been able to confirm
the figures. For now, that information has been removed.
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