BlueGene/L is a next-generation massively-parallel computing system designed for research and development in computational science. BlueGene/L is targeted at delivering hundreds of teraflops to selected applications of interest to the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC). It is an extremely high compute-density system with very attractive cost performance and relatively modest power and cooling requirements.
BlueGene/L is Number 1 on the TOP500 list of supercomputers. It has doubled in size since it first achieved this distinction in November 2004 and has now attained a Linpack performance of 136.8 TFlop/s.
BlueGene/L will be doubled in size once again before the next version of the TOP500 list is published in November 2005. This next doubling in size will bring BlueGene/L to its planned final configuration with 65,536 dual-processor compute nodes for a theoretical peak computing capability in excess of 360 teraflops.
(pejorative) - a portmanteau of "blue" (leaning to the political left) and "bourgeoisie" (the class of people who are wealthy, educated, and politically powerful), the bluegeoisie is the subset of political liberals and/or political progressives who are relatively affluent. A.K.A the "limousine liberals".
A trip to a grocery store, convenience store, or gas station for the sole purpose of buying an excessive amount of junk food and sugary drinks, usually with friends. A chud run often happens late at night and ends with everyone involved hating themselves afterwards.