What is Bluegene?
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BlueGene/L is a next-generation massively-parallel computing system designed for research and development in computational science. BlueGene/L is targeted at delivering hundreds of teraflops to selected applications of interest to the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC). It is an extremely high compute-density system with very attractive cost performance and relatively modest power and cooling requirements.
BlueGene/L is Number 1 on the TOP500 list of supercomputers. It has doubled in size since it first achieved this distinction in November 2004 and has now attained a Linpack performance of 136.8 TFlop/s.
BlueGene/L will be doubled in size once again before the next version of the TOP500 list is published in November 2005. This next doubling in size will bring BlueGene/L to its planned final configuration with 65,536 dual-processor compute nodes for a theoretical peak computing capability in excess of 360 teraflops.
