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PERCS
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PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System) is IBM's answer to DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) initiative. The program resulted in commercial development and deployment of the Power 775, a supercomputer design with extremely high performance ratios in fabric and memory bandwidth, as well as very high performance density and power efficiency.
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Developer | IBM |
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Type | Supercomputer platform |
Release date | 2010 (as prototype) 2011 (as platform) |
CPU | IBM POWER7 |
Predecessor | IBM Blue Gene; Aquasar prototype |
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IBM officially announced the Power 775 on July 12, 2011 and started to ship systems in August 2011.[1]