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DRESDEN, Germany (AP) - Hewlett-Packard Co. improved its standing on the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, released Wednesday at a conference in Dresden.
IBM Corp. still dominates with six of the top 10, including the BlueGene/L computer at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear lab. It remained the world's fastest computer by performing a standard benchmark operation at 280 teraflops — 280 trillion calculations per second.
IBM used the occasion to announce it expects to break the petaflop barrier — a quadrillion calculations per second — as early as 2008 with BlueGene/P, its next supercomputing family. At its maximum scale, IBM said, BlueGene/P could reach 3 petaflops, a potential boon for complex simulations in drug research and energy exploration.
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