Livermore supercomputer ranked as world’s fastest

June 23, 2005 | Source: S.F. Chronicle

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory now has the world’s most powerful computer, IBM’s BlueGene/L, according to this year’s Top 500 list, announced Wednesday at the International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg, Germany.

The BlueGene/L installed there contains 62,000 microprocessors that can handle 136.8 trillion calculations, or teraflops, per second.