Cell-based "Roadrunner" Tops Elusive Petaflop Mark

prunedude writes "The NY times is reporting that an American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L. To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day."

Comments

Re:But can it run....

[Warll]

Crysis is a miserably boring game. It is? Too bad no one told me that before I had plenty of fun playing through it.

Yes

[Konster]

But will it blend?

Re:Why the slashdot downtime?

[sherpajohn]

Genesis turned into a bland pop act 2 albums after Peter Gabriel left. But I think you know that.