IBM Number One in Supercomputing, Report Finds; IBM Supplies More Than 34 Percent of the Processing Power to Run The World's Top 500 Supercomputers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ARMONK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2003 An independent study released today found that IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) is the world's leading provider of supercomputing power with a total of 130 Teraflops of power (trillions of calculations per second) on the TOP500 List of Supercomputers, representing more than 34 percent of the total processing power on the list. IBM's results are 44 percent better than runner up HP, finishing second with 90 teraflops of total processing power. IBM's leadership in powering some of the world's biggest supercomputers is exemplified in the exclusive top 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world. IBM accounts for 50 percent of these systems versus 12 percent for HP. Additionally, IBM has 31 systems in the "Teraflop Club (body) teraflop club - /te'r*-flop kluhb/ (From tera- and flops) A mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques. " versus HP's 7 systems. The Teraflop Club includes systems that perform greater than one trillion calculations per second. "IBM has committed our deep technology and research capabilities to become the leader in supercomputing," said Dave Turek, vice president IBM Deep Computing. "Leveraging our strengths in technology and research with the sophisticated software and deep industry knowledge help customers solve real life business problems." The "TOP500 List Supercomputing Sites" is compiled and published by supercomputing experts Hans Meuer Hans Meuer is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Mannheim, general manager of Prometeus GmbH and general chairman of the International Supercomputing Conference[1]. of the University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim is one of the younger German universities. Though it sees its roots back to the Kurpfälzische Akademie der Wissenschaften of 1763, the actual university was founded in 1907 as college for economics. (Germany), Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon from NERSC NERSC National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (new name) NERSC Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (Bergen, Norway) NERSC National Energy Research Supercomputer Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and Jack Dongarra Jack Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department [1] at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge from the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. . The entire list can be viewed at http://www.top500.org. About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com. |
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