Top 5 fastest supercomputers in the world
July 8th, 2008

The Roadrunner, the IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, shattered all speed records recently. Comprised of AMD opteron and Sony/IBM Cell based processors (used in the PS3) achieved performance of 1.026 petaflop/s—becoming the first supercomputer ever to reach this milestone.

Spots 1-5 are:

  1. IBM Roadrunner (1.026 petaflop/s) at U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory
  2. IBM BlueGene/L system (478.2 teraflop/s) at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  3. IBM BlueGene/P (450.3 teraflop/s) at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory
  4. Sun SunBlade x6420 “Ranger” system (326 teraflop/s) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas – Austin
  5. Cray XT4 “Jaguar” (205 teraflop/s) at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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  1. Petaflop achieved by PS3 based chip, Articles from Voodish. says:
    July 8, 2008 at 5:37 pm

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