Sun Blade System at Tokyo's Human Genome Center Debuts on Top500 Supercomputer List
June 26, 2009
Sun Blade System at Tokyo's Human Genome Center Debuts on Top500 Supercomputer List
A 5,760-core Sun Microsystems blade system at the University of Tokyo's Human Genome Center is the second-fastest life science computer on the latest Top500 list. It follows the 97.1-teraflop, 18,176-core "Chinook" HP cluster at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, which holds the No. 34 spot in the current list.
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