IBM’s Power 775 wins recent HPC Challenge (with Linux!)The IBM Power 775 is an amazing server. In this publish, Redhat Linux Version 6.2 is used. IBM’s Power 775 wins recent HPC ChallengeStarting out as a government project 10 years ago, IBM Research’s high performance computing project, PERCS (pronounced “perks”), led to one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the Power 775. This July, the Power 775 continued to prove its power by earning the top spot in a series of benchmark components of the HPC Challenge suite. IBM Research scientist Ram Rajamony, who was the chief performance architect for the Power 775, talks about how the system beat this HPC Challenge. Check out the article on IBM Research News. |