IBM's Pride: Blue Gene, Baby!
Two prototypes of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers, which are made at the company's Rochester, Minn. facility, have made the top ten of an annual ranking of the most powerful computers. A final version of Blue Gene is expected to rank number one within a year.
Blue Gene will deliver a jaw-dropping amount of processing power. The first system will be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and will be almost ten times faster than the fastest machine available today.
Blue Genes are small compared to earlier supercomputers, and they use significantly less power.
