IBM describes Power7 supercomputer

By Rick Merritt - IBM engineers sketched out plans for a petaflops-class supercomputer built from as many as 64,000 Power7 processors. The design will bring a terabit/second of optical links to the system's main processor boards.

The computer is being built under a U.S. government program geared to create a new class of supercomputers that cost less, use less power yet are easier to...