IBM Roadrunner Supercomputer powered by Cell

IBM Roadrunner Supercomputer powered by Cell

IBM shows the worlds the Roadrunner supercomputer, which is powered by IBM’s Cell processor that is used on the PS3, and a few of AMD Opteron processor. The new Roadrunner supercomputer is twice as fast as the BluGene/L and delivers a processing power of 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

[NYTimes]

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