IBM has taken an experiment — Blue Gene/L, the world’s fastest supercomputer — and turned it into a commercial, albeit expensive, off-the-shelf product. The Blue Gene project began five years ago with the goal of creating a family of supercomputers that could have more commercial applications because they were tuned to bandwidth efficiency, designed for scalability and could handle large amounts of data for a fraction of the power and floor space previously required.
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IBM Puts Blue Genes on the Shelf
Posted by: Susan B. Shor November 8, 2004 02:16 PMIBM has taken an experiment — Blue Gene/L, the world’s fastest supercomputer — and turned it into a commercial, albeit expensive, off-the-shelf product. The Blue Gene project began five years ago with the goal of creating a family of supercomputers that could have more commercial applications because they were tuned to bandwidth efficiency, designed for scalability and could handle large amounts of data for a fraction of the power and floor space previously required.