Roadrunner: supercomputer breaks petaflop barrier
1.5 petaflop Roadrunner supercomputer Credit: LeRoy N. Sanchez, Records Management, Media Services and Operations (LANL)
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June 17, 2008 A collaboration between IBM and the Los Alamos National Laboratory has resulted in the world's fastest supercomputer. Roadrunner can run at speeds above the "petaflop barrier" of 1,000 trillion operations per second, making it twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene/L™ and opening up an era of science at a previously unseen scale.
