Newest Super Computer[->] 2008-06-11 14:39 SGDarkKnight
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SGDarkKnight writes "Globe and Mail — Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100-million (U.S.) machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations a second in a sustained exercise.
The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions.
The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itself is three times faster than any of the world's other supercomputers, according to IBM."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080609.wsupercomp0609/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080609.wsupercomp0609
The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions.
The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itself is three times faster than any of the world's other supercomputers, according to IBM."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080609.wsupercomp0609/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080609.wsupercomp0609
