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Roadrunner: world’s fastest PC. What would Wile E Coyote say?

Posted By Brad On September 6, 2006 @ 8:59 pm In BESComputers.net | No Comments

What would Wile E Coyote say? IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional Opteron chips but also the Cell processor used in the Sony Playstation. The supercomputer, will be the world’s fastest machine and is designed to sustain a performance level of a “petaflop” or one quadrillion calculatio

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[1] read more: http://techniusen.blogspot.com/2006/09/big-blue-scores-bid-to-build-worlds.html
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