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IBM building next gen BlueGene supercomputers

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SAN FRANCISCO,USA: Global IT major IBM announced today that it has signed a new contract with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build the next generation of a supercomputers at the DOE facility.

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The new one, with the computing power of 2 million laptops, is much speedier than the previous one that IBM had launched seven months back, said a Reuters report.

IBM said it is developing the technology for its new Sequoia computer. The first part of this supercomputer installation will begin later this year and IBM plans to complete the project in 2012, when the new BlueGene system, called 'Sequoia', is finished.

Sequoia, will chug along at 20 petaflops per second and is one order of magnitude quicker than its predecessor.

The earlier machine, delivered in June to the Energy Department, broke the 1 petaflop barrier. Peta is a term for quadrillion and FLOP stands for floating point operations per second.

Before building Sequoia supercomputer IBM engineers will begin work on “Dawn,” a high-performance computing (HPC) system later this year, a media report said. Dawn is based on IBM’s BlueGene/P design and can deliver 500 teraflops or 500 trillion calculations per second of performance.

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