This interesting and entertaining Associated Press article at CBSNews.com takes a look at the battle between Japan and the U.S. over the #1 spot in supercomputing, on the eve of the SuperComputing 2002 conference in Baltimore . . .

“. . . In 2005, IBM plans to deliver a second supercomputer to the Department of Energy, dubbed Blue Gene/Lite, which will run 130,000 processors at a theoretical top speed of 360 teraflops — more than triple the speed of ASCI Purple.”

“IBM says Blue Gene/Lite, running the Linux operating system, will tackle research on global climate change and study the interaction between atmospheric chemistry and pollution.”

'”The 'Lite” designation refers to IBM's ongoing Blue Gene supercomputer experiment, where the company has been researching the techniques behind building a supercomputer that could handle a petaflop — or a quadrillion calculations — per second . . .”

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