News by US Department of Energy on 09 June 2008
The US Department of Energy made a new record for building up the fastest computer in the world by using video game computer chips.
The supercomputer is named as "Roadrunner". This computer is built from 13,000 of Cell processors which were first used in the PlayStation 3, in collaboration with around 7,000 AMD processors designed for desktop computers.
This supercomputer processes the information twice as fast as the previous fastest computer used too. Roadrunner recently managed to run 1000 trillion calculations per second. Roadrunner is a teraflop as it can perform trillion calculations per second.
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, declared that Roadrunner is the fastest computer in the world.
The US Department of Energy made a new record for building up the fastest computer in the world by using video game computer chips.
The supercomputer is named as "Roadrunner". This computer is built from 13,000 of Cell processors which were first used in the PlayStation 3, in collaboration with around 7,000 AMD processors designed for desktop computers.
This supercomputer processes the information twice as fast as the previous fastest computer used too. Roadrunner recently managed to run 1000 trillion calculations per second. Roadrunner is a teraflop as it can perform trillion calculations per second.
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, declared that Roadrunner is the fastest computer in the world.
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