From Channel Web I learned that IBM and the US Dept. Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration announced an agreement this week regarding an order for what will become the most powerful supercomputer in the world. One of the systems will be called ‘Dawn’:

… Dawn is a 500 teraflop-per-second initial delivery BlueGene/P system, scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2009. According to the release, Dawn will provide the applications foundation for multipetaflop per second computing on Sequoia.

If all goes according to plan, Sequoia’s 20 petaflops per second speed would make it 10 times faster than any other existing system.

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