By Elina Shatkin, August 29, 2003
IBM announced that Japan’s largest national research organization has ordered an IBM TM Linux supercomputer that when completed will deliver more than 11 trillion calculations per second, making it the world’s most powerful Linux-based supercomputer. It is expected to be more powerful than the current Linux cluster currently ranked as the third most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to the TOP500 List of Supercomputers.
The supercomputer is planned to be integrated with other non-Linux systems to form a massive, distributed computing Grid -- enabling collaboration between corporations, academia and government -- to support various research including grid technologies, life sciences bioinformatics and nanotechnology
. The system with a total of 2,636 processors will include 1,058 IBM 325 systems, which were introduced with 2,116 AMD Opteron processors.
The new supercomputer will help Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), well known worldwide for its leading research in Grid technologies, to accelerate research using grid technology in a wide variety of projects including the search for new materials to be used for super conductors and fuel cell batteries, and the search for new compounds that could be the basis for a cure for various malignant diseases.
.
|