Roadrunner supercomputer processes a petaflop of calculations
Military Supercomputer Sets Record
New York Times June 9, 2008
The “Roadrunner†supercomputer,
built by IBM and Los Alamos National
Laboratory scientists, has reached a
computing milestone by processing
one thousand trillion calculations
per second (a petaflop). It is more
than twice as fast as the IBM
BlueGene/L, the previous record
holder, which is based at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, and…
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