Research and Development

On 9 September 2006 the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) selected IBM to design and build the world's first supercomputer to use the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell B.E.) processor aiming to produce a machine capable of a sustained speed of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one PFLOPS.

In India, a project is under the leadership of Dr. Karmarkar is also developing a supercomputer that can reach one PFLOPS.^[2]

CDAC is also building a supercomputer that can reach one PFLOPS by 2010.^[3]