Close on the heels of IBM’s new Roadrunner supercomputer is IBM’s Akka, a supercomputer the company said is one the fastest in the world, performing roughly 266 megaflops per watt. IBM is installing Akka at The High Performance Computing Center North, a consortium of universities and research institutes in northern Sweden, where it will be used for basic as well as applied research. Akka runs both Windows and Linux and is among the 50 fastest supercomputers in the world.
IBM’s Akka Supercomputer Built In Sweden
June 16, 2008