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Photos: The birth of a supercomputer Camera icon

Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 23 Jan 2006 10:55 GMT

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The computer is made out of node boards which carry the processors. There are 32 processors on each board which, as the picture shows, can be densely packed together. There is less need for complex electronics around the processors as Blue Gene is the ultimate system designed to do only one job at a time — probably a very big job indeed, but only the one.

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