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BBC NEWS | Technology | Supercomputer sets petaflop pace
Supercomputer sets petaflop pace
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
Currently, BlueGene/L is the most powerful computer in the world
A supercomputer built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation 3 has set a new computing milestone.
The IBM machine, codenamed Roadrunner, has been shown to run at "petaflop speeds", the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per second.
The benchmark means the computer is twice as nimble as the current world's fastest machine, also built by IBM.
It will be installed at a US government laboratory later this year where it will monitor the US nuclear stockpile.
It will also be used for research into astronomy, genomics and climate change.
"We are getting closer to simulating the real world," Bijan Davari, vice president of next generation computing systems at IBM, told BBC News. It would be of particular use for calculating risk in financial markets, he said. "The latency of the calculations is so small that for all practical purposes it is real time."
Supercomputer sets petaflop pace
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
A supercomputer built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation 3 has set a new computing milestone.
The IBM machine, codenamed Roadrunner, has been shown to run at "petaflop speeds", the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per second.
The benchmark means the computer is twice as nimble as the current world's fastest machine, also built by IBM.
It will be installed at a US government laboratory later this year where it will monitor the US nuclear stockpile.
It will also be used for research into astronomy, genomics and climate change.
"We are getting closer to simulating the real world," Bijan Davari, vice president of next generation computing systems at IBM, told BBC News. It would be of particular use for calculating risk in financial markets, he said. "The latency of the calculations is so small that for all practical purposes it is real time."
