IBM Super Computer - Over One Petaflops of Computation
Monday, June 9th, 2008
The US Military have always experienced vast amounts of computing power, Flops and Flops of POWER! The Super Computer named Roadrunner created by IBM has achieved the long awaited goal of 1.026 Quadrillion caluculations a second!
The Super Computer Roadrunner is made up of 12,960 modified Cell processor architecture. Along aise these cell processors there are 7000 AMD Operton Processors, the design also includesa parallel chip that act as a turbocharger that acelerates parallel processing.
Roadrunner can run rings around the previous fatest IBM Super Computer the BlueGene/L, this Supoer Computer could execute one thousand trillion calculations per second! or a petaflop!
The Super Computer needs the same amount of of power as say a shopping centre or Harrods for example. The Super Computer will knock you back 133 million dollars but will help problem solving issues with Nuclear Weaponary, Global warming and the meaning of life which has be calulated as being the ineteger 42 :/.
IBM may be looking at slightly larger measurments of computation. Now the Peta Flop is done and dusted which took 11 years to achieve the exaflop, zettaflop, yottaslop and the xerflop will follow.
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