US government builds Linux supercomputer for nuclear stockpile    Tuesday, February 03 2009 @ 04:00 PM EST Contributed by: sde The US government has commissioned IBM to create a massive supercomputer that will have 1.6 million processor cores and be 15 times faster than today's most powerful machine. The Sequoia supercomputer is scheduled for operation in 2012 and will be able to perform at 20 petaflops, or 20,000 trillion floating point operations per second, IBM said. The fastest supercomputer today, IBM's Roadrunner at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, can manage 1.1 petaflops. The cost of the system has not been disclosed, but is likely to run into hundreds of millions of dollars, analysts said. IBM is building two supercomputers under the contract. The first one, to be delivered by mid-year, is called Dawn and will operate at around 500 teraflops. It will be used by researchers to help prepare for the larger system. Read more   [ Views: 962 ]

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