Is the road runner still the fastest computer in the world?
THE ROADRUNNER supercomputer at the US Los Alamos National Laboratory has held on to the title of the world’s fastest computer. According to the biannual ranking of high performance computing (HPC) systems Top 500 list, two new systems have appeared in the top 10. The IBM BlueGene/P called Jugene, a PowerPC 450 machine, and the Juropa, a Sun system with Intel Xeon X5570 processors, are both at the Forschungszentrum Juelich research centre in Germany. Jugene can manage 825.5 teraflops and the Juropa 274.8 teraflops, which are a fair few flops. But the IBM Roadrunner, which uses PowerXcell 8i processors, still retains first place with blistering 1.105 petaflops performance. Sources: http://www.theinquirer.
THE ROADRUNNER supercomputer at the US Los Alamos National Laboratory has held on to the title of the world’s fastest computer. According to the biannual ranking of high performance computing (HPC) systems Top 500 list, two new systems have appeared in the top 10. The IBM BlueGene/P called Jugene, a PowerPC 450 machine, and the Juropa, a Sun system with Intel Xeon X5570 processors, are both at the Forschungszentrum Juelich research centre in Germany. Jugene can manage 825.5 teraflops and the Juropa 274.8 teraflops, which are a fair few flops. But the IBM Roadrunner, which uses PowerXcell 8i processors, still retains first place with blistering 1.105 petaflops performance.
