SDSC announces that its new IBM eServer Blue Gene computer system is installed and accepted.

Named Intimidata, this first IBM Blue Gene system at an academic institution already ran a series of standard benchmarks and user applications by launch date. On the widely quoted Linpack benchmark, Intimidata achieved 4.6 teraflops, which was more than 80 percent of peak performance. The Blue Gene system was housed in a single rack with 1,024 compute nodes and 128 I/O nodes, the maximum ratio of I/O to compute nodes to support data-intensive computing. Each node consisted of two PowerPC processors that ran at 700 MHz and shared 512 MB of memory, giving an aggregate peak speed of 5.7 teraflops and a total memory of 512 GB.