IBM’s Roadrunner Now World’s Fastest
The biannual list of the fastest computers in the world was release today at the International Supercomputing Conference, and it’s no surprise that IBM’s Roadrunner at the NNSA-run (National Nuclear Security Administration) Los Alamos laboratories in New Mexico has seized the number one spot.
IBM currently hold’s the top three spots for fastest computers in the world, with the Blue Gene/L system and the Team Blue Gene/P taking second and third respectively.
The fastest computer in the world is using some pretty interesting processors, utilizing 12,240 IBM PowerXCell 8i chips (a high-performance cell processor, similar to (but much more expensive than) that used in the Playstation 3) and 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron processors. So is it odd that our home entertainment centers are using supercomputer parts, or that our supercomputers use entertainment center parts? Jump over to InformationWeek for more info at the link below.