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Parts/CPUs/IBM PowerPC A2 (Power BQC)

CPUs · BlueGene/Q · 2011

IBM PowerPC A2 (Power BQC)

18-core BlueGene/Q processor, 16 of them available to applications. The last generation of the many-slow-cores argument before accelerators won it.

Systems using this part

Systems
2
Rmax underneath
25.76 PFlop/s
Units recorded
-
0 of 2 edges disclose a quantity
System Role Country Units System Rmax Supplied by Rank
Mira
2012-06
CPU USA - 8.59 PFlop/s IBM #3 →
Sequoia
2012-06
CPU USA - 17.17 PFlop/s IBM #1 →

“Units recorded” sums only the edges where a public source states a quantity. It is a floor, not a total, and should never be read as installed base.

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