IBM Dominates Green Supercomputer List

IBM Dominates Green Supercomputer List

IBM produces the most powerful and energy efficient computers on the planet, according to the latest supercomputing Green500 list from Green500.org.


The top 20 most efficient supercomputers are built by IBM, or use the company's high performance computing technology, according to Green500.org; overall Big Blue holds 39 of the top 50 positions, in a list made up of computers used in astronomy, meteorology and pharmaceuticals research.



Overall, the most energy efficient system in the world is a supercomputer based on QS22 Blade servers at the University of Warsaw's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling.

According to IBM this produces more than 536 million floating point operations per second per watt of energy.