The world’s fastest commercial supercomputer has been launched by computer giant IBM. Approximately 100,000 times more powerful than a PC, the first machine has been bought by the US government. It will be installed at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois later this year.

Blue Gene/P is three times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM. The latest number cruncher is capable of operating at so called “petaflop” speeds - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Wooo.. that’s a very powerful “machine!”

Here is list of TOP FIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS:

1) Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. (280.6 teraflops; 131,072 processors)

2) Jaguar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee (101.7 teraflops; 11,706 processors).

3) Red Storm, Sandia National Laboratories, USA (101.4 teraflops; 26,544 processors)

4) BGW Blue Gene, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (91.29 teraflops; 40,960 processors)

5) New York Blue, Stony Brook/BNL, New York Center for Computational Sciences, New York (82.161 teraflops; 36,864 processors)

Source: Top 500 Supercomputers
Source: BBC