Roadrunner - IBM supercomputer, World's fastest

Supercomputer created by IBM with the name of the Roadrunner, yesterday was namedthe fastest supercomputer in the world in the World's TOP500 Supercomputer.Supercomputer was built for Los Alamos National Laboratory NNSA's (National NuclearSecurity Administration) is, has a speed of 1.02 petaflops.
Roadrunner itself consists of 6562 AMD Opteron Dual Core processors. Another advantage of the Roadrunner is situated on the use of hybrid technology which is moreefficient in power consumption.

IBM's own party are proud of what they achieved, especially ranked number 2 and 3 wonby the Blue Gene / L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory California's NNSA withspeed and 478 teraflops Blue Gene / P in Chicago's Argonne National LaboratoryDepartment of Energy to speed 450 teraflops, the supercomputer from IBM is alsoartificial.

Selection of supercomputers is done during the International SupercomputerConference held in Dresden, Germany, in addition, also announced TOP500supercomputer on earth, which was announced on the site http://www.top500.org/

Author : Arief LS
FTI - Universitas Atmajaya