Green Options » argonne http://greenoptions.com/tag/argonne Posts tagged 'argonne' Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Argonne National Laboratory Debuts Energy Efficient 557 TFlop Supercomputer http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/29/argonne-national-laboratory-debuts-energy-efficient-557-tflop-supercomputer/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/29/argonne-national-laboratory-debuts-energy-efficient-557-tflop-supercomputer/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:09 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/29/argonne-national-laboratory-debuts-energy-efficient-557-tflop-supercomputer/ computer

Argonne National Laboratory’s new Blue Gene/P high-performance computer runs at an awe-inspiring 557 teraflops (557 trillion calculations per second) and can wow the green crowd with its energy efficiency. The computer uses only 1 MW of power— about a third as much electricity as a conventionally built supercomputer of comparable size.

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