Artist's rendition of what the final Blue Gene/L machine will look like installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in early 2005.

IBM researcher Shawn Hall inspects a new Blue Gene/P supercomputer. The IBM system will be capable of up to three thousand trillion calculations per second.

The Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (SAITC) and IBM Bulgaria today announced the Bulgarian IBM Blue Gene/P - the first installation of the world famous Blue Gene computer in Bulgaria.

The Green 500 report (www.green500.org) announced yesterday found that the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world is the IBM system installed in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), at the University of Warsaw.

Lead engineer Don Grice of IBM inspects the world's fastest computer in the company's Poughkeepsie, NY plant. The computer nicknamed "Roadrunner" was built for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and will be housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. IBM engineers in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Rochester, Minn., Austin, Texas and Yorktown Heights, N.Y., worked on the computer, the first to break a milestone known as a "petaflop" -- the ability to calculate 1,000-trillion operations every second. The computer packs the power of 100,000 laptops -- a stack 1.5 miles high. Roadrunner will primarily be used to ensure national security, but will also help scientists perform research into energy, astronomy, genetics and climate change.

IBM today introduced Blue Cloud, a series of cloud computing offerings that will link together computers to deliver Web 2.0 capabilities and allow corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet. Above is a photo of Europe's most powerful computer at Jülich. (Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Technicians at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California install the world's most powerful computer, an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer. The machine is 50,000 times more powerful than a home PC. (photo credit Livermore National Laboratory).

NOAA announced today that it has activated its newest weather and climate supercomputers, increasing the computational might used for the nation's climate and weather forecasts by 320 percent. The new IBM machines process 14 trillion calculations per second at maximum performance and ingest more than 240 million global observations daily. Photo credit ?NOAA.?

World's Fastest Chip -- IBM today introduced servers based on its new POWER6 microprocessor. POWER6 is the fastest microprocessor ever built and contains many technological breakthroughs that provide twice the performance with virtually no increase in energy consumption. The IBM System p570 servers pictured here are being readied for delivery at IBM's Rochester, Minnesota manufacturing facility.

IBM technicians Duke Alexander, Kingston, NY, and Samantha Sillik, Port Ewen, NY, perform final test and inspections on an IBM System p575 supercomputer at IBM's Poughkeepsie manufacturing site. The p575 will be used by the Beijing Meteorological Bureau to provide official weather forecasts during the 2008 summer Olympics.