IBM’s supercomputer – Roadrunner – is the fastest supercomputer in the world today. It has over 18,000 processors and sustained (not peaked at) 1.02 petaflops or 1.02 quadrillian calculations per second. A quadrillion is 10 to the power of 15 or one thousand times one trillion! (Reminder: a trillion is a one followed by 12 zeros.)

Roadrunner will be shipped to a National Lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico later this summer on 21 tractor trailers.

Of the top 10 fastest computers in the world, the U.S. has places 1 – 5 and #7. Germany, India and France hold the other spots in the top ten. What happened to Japan? The U.S. also holds #12, 14 and 15. Japan took number 16.

The top 100 fastest computers in the world as of June 2008.

Related posts:

  1. Ultimate Backup Concerned about your data integrity (I mean YOUR DATA Integrity.) ...
  2. Your Very Own Supercomputer Purchase your Cray on Ebay – $400,000.00. This Cray T3E-1200E...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.