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IBM's Blue Gene Project Begins

12/1999
IBM's Blue Gene at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

IBM's Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

In December 1999 IBM announced the start of a five-year effort to build a massively parallel computer, Blue Gene, the study of bio-molecular phenomena such as protein folding. When the project began Blue Gene was 500 times more powerful than the world’s fastest computers. 

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