Blue Gene, heir to Deep Blue

2003/04/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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In order to investigate in the field of biology and especially in the genome, IBM will market the Blue Gene computer. This computer will be able to perform 360,000 million operations per second, more than the 500 best supercomputers available today. Blue Gene will have 65,536 processors in pairs that work in parallel and consume 20 kW per hour. In cost/result ratio, Deep Blue is 20 times better than the pioneer. Deep Blue, when born, had 256 processors and could operate between 100 and 200 billion. For reference, conventional computers have a processor, two, four, the best, eight.