IBM Press room - 2008-06-09 Fact Sheet & Background: Roadrunner Smashes the Petaflop Barrier - United States

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IBM Press room - 2008-06-09 Fact Sheet & Background: Roadrunner Smashes the Petaflop Barrier - United States Links2
Gizmodo found this 11/17/2008 on www-03.ibm.com (flag)
Made from Commercial Parts. In total, Roadrunner connects 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron chips as well as 12,240 Cell chips (on IBM Model QS22 blade servers). The Roadrunner system has 98 terabytes of memory, and is housed in 278 refrigerator-sized, IBM BladeCenter racks occupying 5,200 square ... (link)

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IBM Roadrunner Tops Cray as the Official World's Fastest Supercomputer [Supercomputers]
Published 11/17/2008 by Mark Wilson at Gizmodo
... It assembles 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i Cell Broadband Engine processors and an additional 6,948 AMD Opteron Dual-Core processors. The AMD equipment handles "basic" functions while the IBM chips handle the intense number crunching. (Read all about the Roadrunner here.) ...

Roadrunner lidera o ranking TOP500 dos supercomputadores
Published 11/20/2008 by Nelson Biagio Junior at BLOG.MACMAGAZINE
... O Roadrunner — supercomputador produzido pela IBM e hospedado no Laboratório Nacional de Los Alamos, no Novo México — lidera o ranking ...

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