http://www.techtree.com/India/News/One_for_this_Roadrunner/551-90123-615.html
"A new supercomputer code-named "Roadrunner" is being touted as the world's fastest machine so far. Designed and built by IBM, this super computer, costing nearly $100 million, can operate at 1 petaflop per second, which is equivalent to one thousand trillion calculations per second.
This makes it twice as fast as the reigning "numero uno" aka IBM's Blue Gene system at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Again, Blue Gene is nearly three times faster than top contenders on the current 'top 500 supercomputers' list.
Additionally, "Roadrunner" is also billed to be the world's first hybrid supercomputer. Interestingly, it has been designed using components originally designed for video game platforms such as the Sony Playstation 3. "Roadrunner" operates on open-source Linux software, works in conjunction with x86 processors from AMD, and has 80 terabytes of memory.
"Roadrunner" will be primarily used at a US government laboratory to monitor the US nuclear weapons stockpile. It will also find use in research in the fields of astronomy, energy, human genome science, and climate change.
Just to give an idea of the speed that "Roadrunner" boasts, it is roughly equivalent to the combined computing power of 100,000 of today's fastest laptop computers. A stack of laptops about 1.5 miles high will be required to equal Roadrunner's performance.
In the past 10 years, supercomputer power has increased about 1,000 times. Today, just three of Roadrunner's 3,456 Tri-blade units have the same power as the combined power of the fastest supercomputer back in 1998."
and so the Matrix begins........:aigo:
Whoa.
"A new supercomputer code-named "Roadrunner" is being touted as the world's fastest machine so far. Designed and built by IBM, this super computer, costing nearly $100 million, can operate at 1 petaflop per second, which is equivalent to one thousand trillion calculations per second.
This makes it twice as fast as the reigning "numero uno" aka IBM's Blue Gene system at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Again, Blue Gene is nearly three times faster than top contenders on the current 'top 500 supercomputers' list.
Additionally, "Roadrunner" is also billed to be the world's first hybrid supercomputer. Interestingly, it has been designed using components originally designed for video game platforms such as the Sony Playstation 3. "Roadrunner" operates on open-source Linux software, works in conjunction with x86 processors from AMD, and has 80 terabytes of memory.
"Roadrunner" will be primarily used at a US government laboratory to monitor the US nuclear weapons stockpile. It will also find use in research in the fields of astronomy, energy, human genome science, and climate change.
Just to give an idea of the speed that "Roadrunner" boasts, it is roughly equivalent to the combined computing power of 100,000 of today's fastest laptop computers. A stack of laptops about 1.5 miles high will be required to equal Roadrunner's performance.
In the past 10 years, supercomputer power has increased about 1,000 times. Today, just three of Roadrunner's 3,456 Tri-blade units have the same power as the combined power of the fastest supercomputer back in 1998."
and so the Matrix begins........:aigo:
Whoa.
