June 21, 2012

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We received the sad news that the British actress Caroline John, who played Elizabeth “Liz” Shaw in “Doctor Who”, passed away on June 5, 2012.

Some racks of the IBM Sequoia supercomputer

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The Sequoia supercomputer, which uses Linux as its operating system, is based on the Blue Gene/Q architecture, the latest version of the architecture developed by IBM exactly to build supercomputers. Sequoia uses Power BQC processors with 16 cores clocked at 1.6 GHz stacked in 96 racks. The total number of cores is 1,572,864 for a total computing capacity of 16,324.8 TeraFlops. It has 1,572,864 GBytes (nearly 1.6 PetaBytes) of memory.