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The computer, code named "Stryker," will be deployed at the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center in Aberdeen, Maryland, IBM said.
IBM did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
The supercomputer consists of 1186 powerful IBM computers connected together with a total of about 2,300 64-bit microprocessors made by AMD. The supercomputer would run on the Linux (news - web sites) operating system.
This would be the largest Linux based supercomputer in the U.S. military, IBM said.
The system will perform at a peak speed of 10 teraflops, or 10 trillion mathematical operations per second. That means the supercomputer will be able to accomplish in just one second what it would take a person with a calculator a few million years.
IBM expects the computer to be ranked among the world's 20 fastest computers when the next list of the top 500 computers is released.
The Top 500 list is compiled and published twice a year by Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim (Germany).
The fastest computer, according to the most recent list, was the Earth Simulator Center in Japan made by NEC Corp. (6701.T).
Last week, IBM said it had been selected to build a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense that would be deployed at the Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center in Mississippi.