IBM Kittyhawk

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For other uses, see Kitty Hawk.

Kittyhawk is a new theoretical IBM supercomputer. The project was announced, which entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application. Currently the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.[1][2]

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IBM has prepared a white paper[3] detailing the project. The Kittyhawk will be based on the previously developed IBM supercomputer called BlueGene/P. In theory the Kittyhawk will have up to 16,384 racks, providing a maximum of 67.1 million cores with 32 PB (32 PiB) of memory.[4]

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  1. ^ IBM Proposes One Computer to Run Entire Internet
  2. ^ One computer to rule them all
  3. ^ IBM White Paper
  4. ^ IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet

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