IBM to Build Worlds Most Powerful Supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has contracted with IBM to build what will be the worlds fastest supercomputer. Code named Roadrunner, the machine will be housed at the DOE owned Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine will be used for a program that simulates nuclear weapons testing.
The computer will contain 16,000 standard processors working along side 16,000 "Cell" processors and will be built from "off the shelf" components. IBM has said the new machine will be capable of speeds in the "petaflop" range. One petaflop is equal to 1,000 trillion calculations per second. At peak speed the machine will make 1,600 trillion calculations per second. Link
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