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- Title
Beep-beep! Roadrunner breaks petaflop barrier.
- Abstract
The article highlights the U.S. military's Roadrunner supercomputer, the first machine to calculate at more than a quadrillion operations per second, which breaks the petaflop barrier in Poughkeepsie, New York. The author stated that using the LINPACK standard benchmark for comparing supercomputer performance, the record has been technically set at the International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM's) laboratories on May 25. He added that the Roadrunner which is due to be delivered in July to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has been built to run calculations to ensure the safety of the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
- Subjects
POUGHKEEPSIE (N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); SUPERCOMPUTERS; HIGH performance computing; PETAFLOPS computers; LINPACK (Computer system); INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp.; TOTAL quality management; NUCLEAR facility safety measures; LOS Alamos National Laboratory
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 453, Issue 7197, p837
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/453837a