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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- computer architecture
- Subclass of
- supercomputer
- Manufacturer
- IBM
- Designed by
- IBM
- Image
- BlueGeneL cabinet.jpg
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- Commons category
- Blue Gene/L
- name in kana
- ブルージーン
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue Gene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.