IBM system in Warsaw University is the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world

WARSAW, Poland - 21 Nov 2008:The Green 500 report (www.green500.org) announced yesterday found that the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world is the IBM system installed in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), at the University of Warsaw. "Nautilus" is a development system for hybrid computer architectures - runs on Linux and it is based on QS22 Blade servers. It produces more than 536 Mflops (millions of floating point operations per second) per one watt. Nautilus has been ranked 221 in the latest Top500 list (www.top500.org) of supercomputers, which was announced earlier this week.

Katarzyna Janik

IBM Media Relations - Poland

+48 22 878 6640

Katarzyna.Janik@pl.ibm.com

Maciej Cytowski

ICM, University of Warsaw

+48 22 874 91 00

m.cytowski@icm.edu.pl

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