IBM’s speed in the supercomputer world remains unchallenged today. The company not only maintained its hold on the top ranking spot among all supercomputers with its Blue Gene/L System, which doubled its own speed in the Top500 biannual listing of the world’s fastest machines, but Big Blue built the second- and third-fastest machines as well. In all, IBM makes 43.8 percent of the 500 fastest supercomputers.
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IBM Reigns Supreme in Supercomputer Production
Posted by: Susan B. Shor November 14, 2005 03:00 PMIBM’s speed in the supercomputer world remains unchallenged today. The company not only maintained its hold on the top ranking spot among all supercomputers with its Blue Gene/L System, which doubled its own speed in the Top500 biannual listing of the world’s fastest machines, but Big Blue built the second- and third-fastest machines as well. In all, IBM makes 43.8 percent of the 500 fastest supercomputers.