Los Alamos National Laboratory, US
After six years of hard work, IBM and engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer. It's called Roadrunner. Twice as fast as the previous title holder, Roadrunner is capable of performing one thousand trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
Roadrunner's primary applications will be related nuclear weapons, and will include the simulation of nuclear explosions. Said Thomas D'Agostino, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, "The computer is a speed demon. It will allow us to solve tremendous problems." Government officials say that the computer will also be used to solve problems in civilian engineering, medicine, and science.
According to IBM's supercomputing programs vice president David Turek, the $100 million machine is ". . . a very souped up Sony PlayStation 3."
To learn more about Roadrunner, visit http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html
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