A Dutch organization called Astron is acquiring an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer as part of a new radio telescope project dubbed Lofar, short for Low Frequency Array. Astron's Blue Gene/L machine, based on the Linux operating system and designed to perform at about 34 trillion calculations per second, is expected to be completed in 2005; IBM's first Blue Gene/L supercomputer is slated for use at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Today's fastest machine, NEC's Earth Simulator, was built in 2002 and has a demonstrated speed of 35.6 trillion calculations per second. (CNet News.com 23 Feb 2004)
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