IBM’s Power 775 wins recent HPC Challenge

Starting out as a government project 10 years ago, IBM Research’s high performance computing project, PERCS (pronounced “perks”), led to one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the Power 775. This July, the Power 775 continued to prove its power by earning the top spot in a series of benchmark components of the HPC Challenge suite. 
 

IBM Research scientist Ram Rajamony, who was the chief performance architect for the Power 775, talks about how the system beat this HPC Challenge, as reported in this blog

"Our response was named PERCS – Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computing System. From the start, our goal was to combine ease-of-use and significantly higher efficiencies, compared to the state-of-the-art at the time. After four years of research, the third phase of the DARPA project – that started in 2006 – resulted in today’s IBM’s Power 775."

Update:

• 2012.09.24 - original post .