IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer is the fastest in the world for the fourth consecutive year, according to the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. With a sustained performance of 478 trillion calculations per second (478 “teraflops”), the world’s fastest computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is now nearly three times faster than the rest of the pack.
The No. 2 computer in the world – and Europe’s fastest – is the first-time installation of Blue Gene/P, a sister machine to Blue Gene/L, at the research consortium Jülich in Germany. Jülich’s Blue Gene/P clocks in at 167 teraflops.
IBM systems accounted for almost half the TOP500 rankings, a total of 232 machines on the list, the most of any company.