Back in August IBM had set up its eight cores CPU, the Power7. The Power7 chip is an 8-core CPU, intended for use in high-end supercomputer systems. Word has it the Power7 chips will be used in a newest Supercomputer, which declare to attain 10-petaflops of computing power! Dubbed as Blue Waters, it is a dual attempt of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, its National Center for Supercomputing Applications, IBM, along with the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation. It is supported by the National Science Foundation along with the University of Illinois.

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Blue Waters is estimated to be the most commanding supercomputer in the planet for open scientific research when it comes online in 2011. It will be the foremost system of its type to maintain one petaflop performance on a series of science as well as engineering applications. The project also includes intense collaboration with dozens of teams in the development of science and engineering applications, system software, interactions with business and industry, with educational programs. This complete advance will make sure that scientists as well as engineers across the country will be capable to make use of Blue Waters to its fullest potential. The Blue Waters will perform one quadrillion calculations for each second.

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The 8-core Power7 CPU features 1.2billion transistors plus boast of 12 execution units for each core, with 32 threads for each chip along with highly developed pre-fetching data as well as instruction sets. According to IBM, its Power7 attain a performance level of 20,000 coherent operations in flight.