Tuesday, July 27, 2004
IBM has been selected to build a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense that would be used by the military for war simulation, weather forecasting and other applications, the company said.
The computer will be deployed at the Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center in Mississippi, IBM said.
IBM did not disclose the exact financial terms of the deal but said it was valued in tens of millions of dollars.
The supercomputer consists of 368 powerful computers connected together with a total of about 3,000 64-bit microprocessors made by IBM. The supercomputer would run on IBM's Unix operating system.
The system will perform at a peak speed of 20 teraflops, or 20 trillion mathematical operations per second. That means the supercomputer will be able to accomplish in just one second what it would take a person with a calculator 1.2 million years.
IBM expects the computer to be ranked among the world's 10 fastest computers when the next list of the top 500 computers is released.
By: DocMemory
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