IBM‘s MareNostrum supercomputer in Barcelona sounds like a fun assembly.
With peak system performance of 40 teraflops for the final system configuration and a projected No. 4 spot on the TOP500 list, MareNostrum continues the IBM tradition of high performance computing breakthroughs in the service of scientific advancement—with a twist: MareNostrum is built entirely of commercially available components, including 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM Power PC 970FX processors and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers.