Big Blue talks up its exotic Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the first module of which is a relatively small, dishwasher-size machine that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second. Stephen ...

IBM will install a second Blue Gene/L supercomputer as part of a radio telescope project in the Netherlands, the company plans to announce Monday. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

As IBM continues to build new machines in its Blue Gene line of powerful supercomputers, the operating system of choice from now on will be Linux. In an announcement this week, the company said the ...

IBM has sold a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, or EPFL, in Lausanne, ...

Advanced cellular architecture in the next-generation supercomputer will help scientists better understand the makeup and purpose of different genes and proteins in living cells. Massive computing ...

Today, for the first time, IBM will begin offering access to the company's Blue Gene supercomputer as it christens a new arm of its business in Rochester. Ultimately, IBM hopes that the Deep Computing ...

IBM Rochester still leads the pack in the race for computing speed with the top two fastest machines in the world — by far. In the biannual Top 500 fastest computers in the world list released Monday, ...

Supercomputing is more widely available to cost-conscious institutions thanks to IBM’s decision to lower the price of Blue Gene/L before releasing its newest – and more expensive – supercomputer. IBM ...

IBM is looking into ways it can leverage its Blue Gene supercomputer within the company’s BladeCenter line of ultra-thin blade servers, a company executive has confirmed. “We’ve been looking into ways ...

Fresh from setting a record for performance among supercomputers just a few days ago, IBM today announced that it is making a commercial version of its Blue Gene system available for businesses and ...

The German Research Center Jülich unveiled Europe’s most powerful supercomputer this week, an IBM Blue Gene system that will be used by European scientists to do environmental and particle physics ...

Datacenter Knowledge takes a sneak peek at IBM Blue Gene/Q supers in the works: the 10 petaflop Mira system at Argonne National Lab and the 20 petaflop Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore. The Power-7 chip ...