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IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer has smashed the high-tech equivalent of the four-minute mile by breaking the lofty petaflop barrier. IBM executives announced today that the company’s latest ...
IBM Roadrunner, which was the world's fastest supercomputer as recently as June 2009, and the first supercomputer to hit 1 petaflop, is now obsolete and has been shut down. At a cost of $120 ...
World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled IBM Roadrunner, the first petaflop machine, goes offline today.
Roadrunner was built, tested and benchmarked in IBM's Poughkeepsie, N.Y., plant, which is also the home of the ASCI series of supercomputers the company built for the U.S. government in the late ...
IBM's new petaflop-class supercomputer, called Roadrunner, is as important to scientists as the world's first computers, according to a researcher at Los Alamos National Lab.
This year, the 31st time the list has been put together, the honor of top supercomputer goes to IBM's Roadrunner, which is housed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
supercomputer. The 1.105 petaflop/s IBM Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory retained its top dog title that it first achieved in June, after it underwent upgrades.. The ...
RoadRunner pushes the IBM BlueGene/L system off the top spot in the Top 500 supercomputers that it has held since November 2004 A supercomputer based on the Cell processor that is found in Sony ...
IBM’s Roadrunner cluster has once again claimed the title of fastest supercomputer in the world. The Los Alamos research system extended its run at the top of the rankings with a top computing ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It's the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $121 million ...
IBM claimed bragging rights Wednesday as its Roadrunner supercomputer earned the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer. The ranking, bestowed during the International Supercomputing ...