IBM is building a supercomputer capable of petaflop performance — 1,000 trillion, or a quadrillion, calculations per second — for the U.S. Department of Energy using a combination of more than 30,000 Cell Broadband Engine and AMD Opteron processors. The new supercomputer, dubbed “Roadrunner,” will be built for the National Nuclear Security Administration at the DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory and represents the first use of the Cell processors in a supercomputer.
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Big Blue to Build World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Posted by: Jay Lyman September 7, 2006 11:44 AMIBM is building a supercomputer capable of petaflop performance — 1,000 trillion, or a quadrillion, calculations per second — for the U.S. Department of Energy using a combination of more than 30,000 Cell Broadband Engine and AMD Opteron processors. The new supercomputer, dubbed “Roadrunner,” will be built for the National Nuclear Security Administration at the DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory and represents the first use of the Cell processors in a supercomputer.