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VIRTUALISATION US honours IT inventors
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 08 October 2009 | |
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The 2008 medals were presented yesterday by President Barack Obama in a ceremony held in the East Room of the White House. IBM was awarded the medal for the invention of the Blue Gene supercomputer. It was presented to CEO Sam Palmisano on behalf of the corporation. According to the citation, the medal recognised "the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer and its systems architecture, design, and software, which have delivered fundamental new science, unsurpassed speed, and unparalleled energy efficiency and have had a profound impact worldwide on the high-performance computing industry." Four of the ten fastest supercomputers in the world are Blue Gene systems according to the current Top500 list. Blue Gene also accounts for five of the top ten in the Green500, which re-ranks the Top500 by energy efficiency. IBM officials claim "Blue Gene's speed and expandability have enabled business and science to address a wide range of complex problems and make more informed decisions -- not just in the life sciences, but also in astronomy, climate, simulations, modeling and many other areas. Blue Gene systems have helped map the human genome, investigated medical therapies, safeguarded nuclear arsenals, simulated radioactive decay, replicated brain power, flown airplanes, pinpointed tumors, predicted climate trends, and identified fossil fuels – all without the time and money that would have been required to physically complete these tasks." Please read on for details of the Adobe founders' award. |
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