IBM Corp yesterday announced a $3.9m co-operative research and development agreement with the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, aimed at advancing the use of massively parallel supercomputing in both commercial and scientific applications: Argonne has bought the most powerful IBM Powerparallel machine, the first 128-processor system to be sold, with peak performance of […]
IBM Corp yesterday announced a $3.9m co-operative research and development agreement with the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, aimed at advancing the use of massively parallel supercomputing in both commercial and scientific applications: Argonne has bought the most powerful IBM Powerparallel machine, the first 128-processor system to be sold, with peak performance of 16 GFLOPS; the two also signed a co-operative research and development agreement in which they will work together to assess the hardware and software needs to create new programs that exploit parallel processing; IBM will provide $1.95m to Argonne in the form of integrated services and technological expertise, and the Department of Energy will be putting up matching funds.
