For a record-setting tenth consecutive time, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) system holds the number one position in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the "roadrunner project" at Los Alamos National Lab -- the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop) -- remains the world speed champion.
IBM also declared its intent to break the exaflop barrier, and announced that it had created a research 'collaboratory' in Dublin, in partnership with the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) of Ireland, which is focused on both achieving exascale computing and making it useful to business. An exaflop is a million trillion calculations per second, which is 1000 times faster than today's petaflop-class systems.
IBM sets sights on Exascale Systems for a Smarter Planet. Having ushered in the petaflop era a year ago, IBM has established a Research collaboratory in Dublin, Ireland, in collaboration with the IDA, focused on achieving exascale computing and making it beneficial for businesses with technologies like stream computing to analyze massive amounts of real-time data. This is the first collaboratory that IBM has announced, and the company intends to create more around the world.
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