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series of supercomputers by IBM

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Vinony's link graph records 409 inbound references to Blue Gene, and connects out to dynamic random-access memory, IBM and byte.

Vinony files it under 32-bit computers, 64-bit computers and IBM supercomputer platforms.

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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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Blue Gene/L
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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.

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