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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

We told you today about the newly crowned world’s fastest supercomputer, which used IBM Blue Gene/Q chips and 1.6 ... That is, it works as a “co-processor” alongside a server CPU to ...

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, ...