NewYork Times の記事より

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/technology/29computer.html?ex=1097520132&ei=1&en=378c28fa239f5fcb

The I.B.M. supercomputer has surpassed the Earth Simulator, built by the NEC Corporation, in running the Linpack benchmark, a test program that solves a dense system of mathematical equations. I.B.M. announced yesterday that the Blue Gene/L system had attained a sustained performance of 36.01 trillion calculations per second, or teraflops, eclipsing the top mark of 35.86 teraflops reached in 2002 by the Earth Simulator in Yokohama.

36.01 TFlops というのは ''16,000-processor prototype'' でのrecordとのこと．
来年 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory に納入されるシステムでは， 130,000 processors になる予定．
ってことは，本稼働されるとなるとプロトタイプの8倍強のプロセッサ数になるわけだから，少なく見積もっても地球シミュレート5倍くらいの実効性能になるんだろうな．恐るべしIBM．

BlueGene/L is one-hundredth the physical size of the Earth Simulator and consumes one twenty-eighth the power per computation．

大きさは1/100だけど，さすがに消費電力は1/100とはならず1/28なんだな．