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    Roadrunner was a supercomputer built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. The US$100-million Roadrunner was designed for a...
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  • Warner Cable Roadrunner (supercomputer), a 2008 supercomputer built by IBM MicroOffice RoadRunner, an early laptop from 1983 RoadRunner (application server)...
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    A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is...
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  • game console, released in 2006. In May 2008, the Cell-based IBM Roadrunner supercomputer became the first TOP500 LINPACK sustained 1.0 petaflops system...
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    The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International...
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  • helicopter rotor having three blades A blade server module of the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    is the web color dark slate gray. Computers The exterior shells of supercomputers are often colored various shades of slate gray. The iPhone 5 and the...
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  • speed of 0.5 petaFLOPS. On May 25, 2008, an American supercomputer built by IBM, named 'Roadrunner', reached the computing milestone of one petaFLOPS....
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  • achieves 1,684 MFLOPS/watt. On 9 June 2008, CNN reported that IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer achieves 376 MFLOPS/watt. As part of the Intel Tera-Scale research...
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  • Sony PlayStation 3. IBM designed the PowerXCell 8i for use in the Roadrunner supercomputer. IBM has published information concerning two different versions...
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  • traditional supercomputer applications. The first system to reach this milestone was the IBM Roadrunner in 2008. Petascale supercomputers were succeeded...
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  • Cray (redirect from Cray supercomputer)
    Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It also manufactures...
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  • Cielo was a United States supercomputer located at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Built by Cray Inc, the computer was part of the Advanced Simulation...
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    PACX-MPI). It is used by many TOP500 supercomputers including Roadrunner, which was the world's fastest supercomputer from June 2008 to November 2009, and...
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    is generally considered the first supercomputer. However, some earlier computers were considered supercomputers for their day such as the 1954 IBM NORC...
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  • rather similar to IBM's QS20/21/22 blades (such as used in the Roadrunner supercomputer that took the top spot in the Top500 in May 2008), although Sony...
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    IBM System x iDataPlex, introduced in 2008, was used by many TOP500 supercomputers (as part of IBM Intelligent Cluster), including SuperMUC, Yellowstone...
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  • is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were...
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    Broadband Engine processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3, and RoadRunner, the first supercomputer to reach sustained Petaflop operation. As Chief Architect...
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    IBM Blue Gene (category IBM supercomputer platforms)
    Blue Gene was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with low power consumption...
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    Sequoia (supercomputer). IBM Mira Blue Gene IBM Roadrunner TOP500 Brodkin, John (June 18, 2012). "With 16 petaflops and 1.6M cores, DOE supercomputer is world's...
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    long-term weather forecasts. The world's tenth most powerful supercomputer in 2008, IBM Roadrunner (located at the United States Department of Energy's Los...
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    IBM BladeCenter (category IBM supercomputers)
    on BladeCenter supercomputers: The IBM Roadrunner was implemented with BladeCenter components from 2008 through 2013 All supercomputers of Spanish Supercomputing...
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  • which was used to build the first Cell-based supercomputer, IBM Roadrunner. In 2008, the Roadrunner supercomputer was the first to break the petaflop barrier...
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    Jaguar or OLCF-2 was a petascale supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The massively parallel Jaguar...
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  • processors would be socket compatible with Opteron processors. The IBM Roadrunner supercomputer connected thousands of Opteron cores to almost as many Cell Broadband...
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  • Supercomputer 960×1012 Nvidia DGX-1 The Volta-based upgrade increased calculation power of Nvidia DGX-1 to 960 teraflops. 1.026×1015: IBM Roadrunner 2009...
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    RoadRunner, they lacked the scalability, bandwidth, and parallel computing capabilities to be considered "true" supercomputers. Soon after RoadRunner...
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  • Marenostrum are the most powerful supercomputers of the network. Roadrunner is a new Cell/Opteron based supercomputer that will be operational in 2008...
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    JUGENE (category IBM supercomputers)
    PetaFLOPS, it was at the time the third fastest supercomputer in the world, ranking behind IBM Roadrunner and Jaguar. The new configuration also incorporates...
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