Roadrunner Supercomputer Breaks the Petaflop Barrier

Multimedia · Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:987702

Albright, Brian; McMillan, Charlie; Yin, Lin; Turner, John; Hopson, John; Anastasio, Michael

At 3:30 a.m. on May 26, 2008, Memorial Day, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflops, or 1 million billion calculations per second.

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 987702
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
SUPERCOMPUTER
ROADRUNNER
IBM
PROCESSOR