IBM Roadrunner, which was the world's fastest supercomputer as recently as June 2009, and the first supercomputer to hit 1 petaflop, is now obsolete and has been shut down. At a cost of $120 ...

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Roadrunner uses 3.9 megawatts of power, which Grice noted is enough to power 39,000 100-watt light bulbs. It has 6,948 dual-core Opterons on IBM LS21 Blades, as well as 12,960 Cell processors on ...

Five years after becoming the fastest supercomputer in the world, IBM's Roadrunner system is decommissioned by the Los Alamos National Lab.

Yesterday we wrote about the death of IBM Roadrunner, the first supercomputer in the world to hit petascale speeds, a million billion floating point operations per second.. It's being taken ...

Roadrunner was built, tested and benchmarked in IBM's Poughkeepsie, N.Y., plant, which is also the home of the ASCI series of supercomputers the company built for the U.S. government in the late ...

Roadrunner's computing power is equivalent to 100,000 of today's fastest laptops. The Roadrunner is one of the most complex projects undertaken by both IBM and its partners. IBM produced each of ...

RoadRunner pushes the IBM BlueGene/L system off the top spot in the Top 500 supercomputers that it has held since November 2004 A supercomputer based on the Cell processor that is found in Sony ...

The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released June 23 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Sitting atop the list--again--was IBM's Roadrunner ...

IBM has designed a new $100 million supercomputer, called "Roadrunnner," that's powerful enough to operate at 1 petaflop -- a cool 1 thousand trillion calculations per second. That's twice as fast ...

IBM's Roadrunner was named the world's fastest supercomputer, rocketing to the No. 1 spot on the Top500 list released today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

IBM claimed bragging rights Wednesday as its Roadrunner supercomputer earned the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer. The ranking, bestowed during the International Supercomputing ...