The BlueGene/L system will be installed in February 2005 at the Computational Biology research Center at Tokyo-based AIST. The system consists of four racks with a peak processing speed of 22.8 trillion calculations per second.
Yorktown Heights, N.Y.-based IBM said that it was discussing possible areas for joint research with AIST using application software that IBM has specifically designed for researching protein simulations on BlueGene/L.
AIST joins the Argonne National Laboratory in the