24-04-2012, 10:54 AM
The IBM Roadrunner Supercomputer
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Who was the Inventor?
International Business Machines (IBM) built the Roadrunner.
Not only did they make the Roadrunner, they also built the Blue Gene
They pioneer in computer technology, the Roadrunner is the fastest supercomputer in the world breaking the petaflop barrier at 1.7 petaflops (1,700 trillion calculations per second.)
What is the purpose and importance of this invention?
IBM built the Roadrunner for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration.
The DOE plans to use this computer for simulating how nuclear materials age in order to predict whether the USA’s aging arsenal of nuclear weapons are safe and reliable.
Other uses for the Roadrunner include science, financial, automotive, and aerospace industries
When was the Roadrunner invented?
The Roadrunner was invented and developed from late December 2007 to April 2009.
Test day was on May 25, 2008 when the Roadrunner achieved a top performance of 1.026 petaflops.
TriBlade Architecture
The TriBlade Architecture consists of two dual-core Opterons with 16 GB of RAM and four PowerXCell 8i CPUs with 16 GB of Cell RAM.