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Sequoia built by IBM is the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The world’s fastest supercomputer is the US Department of Energy’s Sequoia system, installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/25/06/2012/53974/top-supercomputers-revealed.htm Sequoia is an IBM BlueGene/Q system with 1,572,864 cores. Sequoia uses IBM’s 18 core 64bit Power Architecture processor and runs Linux. The Top500 Supercomputer list has Linux running 457 out of 500 of the world’s […]

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