Blue Gene
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Key facts
- Developer
- IBM
- Type
- Supercomputer platform
- Released
- BG/L: February 1999 ( 1999-02 ) , BG/P: June 2007, BG/Q: Nov 2011
- Discontinued
- 2015 ( 2015 )
- Cpu
- BG/L: PowerPC 440 , BG/P: PowerPC 450 , BG/Q: PowerPC A2
- Predecessor
- IBM RS/6000 SP ;, QCDOC
- Successor
- Summit , Sierra
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Encyclopedic overview
Hierarchy of Blue Gene processing units
Blue Gene was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with relatively low power consumption.
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