IBM's Blue Gene/L System once again ranks as the fastest computer in the world, coming in at first place on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an organization that ranks the world's most powerful systems. The results were announced Monday at the SC07 Conference, held in Reno, Nev. Located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Department of Energy lab in Livermore, Calif., the system performs 478.2 teraflops -- 478.2 trillion calculations per second. Blue Gene has come in first in the semiannual ranking since November 2004.
November 14th 2007