ViVA was developed and implemented by IBM together with National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center inside the Blue Planet project where they had 8 dual core POWER5 processors made into one vector processor capable of approximately 60-80 GFLOPS of computing power.
IBM and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center worked together on ViVA within the Blue Planet project. They combined eight dual-core POWER5 processors into one vector processor, which could execute approximately 60-80 GFLOPS of computing operations.