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[chriso_86]

images/news/ibm.jpgA supercomputer, built by IBM, has that broken a computing record to achieve the long coveted goal of being able to process over 1.026 quadrillion calculations a second.

The beast, dubbed Roadrunner, is made up of a blend of 12,960 modified Cell processors and some 7000 AMD Opterons. The design apparenty includes a parallel processing chip used as an accelerator and turbocharger which Sony left out of the PlayStation 3.

The Roadrunner runs rings around IBM’s BlueGene/L, the world’s previous fastest supercomputer, weighing in at one thousand trillion calculations per second, or a petaflops.


Read the entire article HERE.

[m.oreilly]

holy mackerel

[highlander]

Do you think that could play crysis in full everything?

[chriso_86]

highlander, on Jun 9 2008, 01:32 PM, said:

Do you think that could play crysis in full everything?

I don't know but we won't have to wait to long to find out. MO will be building one sooner or later I'm sure. He's our early adopter around here.

[Tweak]

Bet cooling them isn't a simple deal. Mike?

[m.oreilly]