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(last updated: 11.08.04)
IBM Blue Gene/L becomes the world's most powerful supercomputer (http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20040930_bluegene.shtml)
September 30, 2004 - IBM has announced that its IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer has surpassed NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan to become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Using the industry-standard LINPACK benchmark, the IBM Blue Gene/L system attained a sustained performance of 36.01 teraflops, eclipsing the three year old top mark of 35.86 teraflops for the Japanese Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan. The milestone was attained during internal testing at IBM's production facility in Rochester, Minnesota. The largest planned Blue Gene/L machine, scheduled for delivery to LLNL in early 2005, will occupy 64 full racks with a peak performance of 360 teraflops. LLNL researchers plan to use Blue Gene/L to simulate physical phenomena that require computational capability much greater than presently available, such as cosmology and the behavior of stellar binary pairs, laser-plasma interactions, and the behavior and aging of high explosives.
November 8, 2004 - InfiniCon Systems and Small Tree Communications announced a partnership to bring to the Mac platform a suite of InfiniBand products -- the same high-speed networking technology used by Virginia Tech's "System X" Xserve G5-based supercomputer. The suite of products announced by InfiniCon and Small Tree includes managed switches, Fibre Channel and Ethernet gateways, high-performance host Upper Layer Protocols (ULPs) and fabric management solutions optimized for Mac OS X. The companies expect the products to interest enterprises and other organizations looking to deploy High Performance Computing (HPC) or supercomputing solutions on Mac OS X.
InfiniBand offers transfers up to 10GB/second (http://www.small-tree.com/infiniband.htm)
October 13, 2004 - Small Tree Communications announces record-breaking InfiniBand networking performance for Mac Supercomputer clusters. The latest release of its InfiniBand networking technology features transfer speeds up to 10GB per second, the fastest ever offered by the company. The solution couples Mellanox's hardware with Small Tree's software and has been certified with Ohio State University's MVAPICH MPI layer for Mac enterprise and supercomputing applications. Virginia State used an earlier version of the technology when it created its cluster of Xserve computers. The InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter is a 133MHz, 64-bit PCI-X card compatible with the PowerMac G5 and all Xserve systems.