Supercomputer has power of 2million laptops
IBM has announced the development of a computer that it claims has the power of 2million laptops.
The Sequoia computer runs at 20quadrillion floating point operations (petaflops) per second and will be used for simulating nuclear tests. It will use 45nm processors with 16 cores per chip for as many as 4096 processors per rack.
Once it goes online, Sequoia will smash the performance mark held by today’s most powerful system, the IBM RoadRunner system (pictured) in Los Alamos which runs at 1.105 petaflops.
It is scheduled for delivery in 2011 to the Department of Energy for use at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in which it will fill an area of 3422 square feet.
