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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • November 15, 2003
    ``IBM on Friday talked up its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the first module of which is a relatively small, dishwasher-size machine that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second.

    ``The performance is enough to make the machine the world's 73rd fastest supercomputer, according to a ranking of the top 500 to be released Sunday. By the time IBM has upgraded the box's 512 chips, each with two processors, and linked it with another 127 identical systems in 2005, Big Blue hopes to take the top spot.

    ``Blue Gene/L is a somewhat exotic machine that's the first phase of an IBM project to tackle a so-far intractable computing problem in genetic research: using the laws of physics to predict how proteins fold from a long chain of building blocks into a complicated structure.''

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