That compares with 267 square millimeters for IBM's current flagship processor, the Power4+ used in its top-end Unix servers. The small size for Blue Gene's chips is crucial to ensure the chips ...

disagrees Lenovo's rival to Apple's Mac Studio gets one of Intel's fastest CPUs and a dedicated GeForce RTX 5060 TI GPU Blue Gene /L packs no less than 131,072 IBM PowerPC processor cores and a ...

The IBM PowerPC A2 processing architecture plays a key role in delivering performance. Each processor includes 16 compute cores (up from four used with Blue Gene/P, the previous system) plus a core ...

IBM sells the Blue Gene machines for about $2 million per 1,024-processor rack, but it also rents access to Blue Gene and other supercomputers for those who don't want to buy a full machine.

The Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, released today, showed IBM’s Blue Gene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron processor powering more systems on ...

for example processor-on-processor or memory-on-processor. IBM is developing this advanced technology by converting the chip that currently powers the fastest computer in the world, the IBM Blue Gene ...

Datacenter Knowledge takes a sneak peek at IBM Blue Gene/Q supers in the works ... at 256 gigaflops per 8 cores and consume 200 watts, where the Blue Gene/Q SoC will pull 204 gigaflops per processor, ...

IBM researchers say each processor is roughly equivalent to the one found in a personal computer, with one gigabyte of working memory. So configured, Blue Gene simulated 4.5 percent of the brain's ...

Rice's new P series Blue Gene supercomputer, which has yet to be named, is slated to become operational in May. It is based on IBM's POWER processor technology, which was developed in part at the ...

Blue Gene/L supercomputer is added to a program that rents processing power, Big Blue is expected to announce Friday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...