IBM Blue GeneBlue Gene is an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with low power consumption. The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene/L, Blue Gene/P, and Blue Gene/Q. During their deployment, Blue Gene systems often led the TOP500 and Green500 rankings of the most powerful and most power-efficient supercomputers, respectively. Blue Gene systems have also consistently scored top positions in the Graph500 list.
POWER9POWER9 is a family of superscalar, multithreading, multi-core microprocessors produced by IBM, based on the Power ISA. It was announced in August 2016. The POWER9-based processors are being manufactured using a 14 nm FinFET process, in 12- and 24-core versions, for scale out and scale up applications, and possibly other variations, since the POWER9 architecture is open for licensing and modification by the OpenPOWER Foundation members.
Torus interconnectA torus interconnect is a switch-less network topology for connecting processing nodes in a parallel computer system. In geometry, a torus is created by revolving a circle about an axis coplanar to the circle. While this is a general definition in geometry, the topological properties of this type of shape describes the network topology in its essence. The following images are 1D, and 2D torus. 1D torus is a simple circle, and 2D torus has the shape of a doughnut.
Computer performance by orders of magnitudeThis list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude in FLOPS. Scientific E notation index: 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | >24 TOC 5×10−1: Computing power of the average human mental calculation for multiplication using pen and paper 1 OP/S: Power of an average human performing calculations using pen and paper 1 OP/S: Computing power of Zuse Z1 5 OP/S: World record for addition set 5×101: Upper end of serialized human perception computation (light bulbs do not flicker to the human observer) 2.
