Worlds fastest super computer

IBM has developed a one peta flop super computer that runs on open source operating system Linux from red hat. The computer is named “Roadrunner’ and is built for the Dept. of Energy’s National nuclear security administration. It will primarily be used to ensure safety and reliability of the nations nuclear weapons stock pile and for research into astronomy, energy, human genome science & climate change.

Costing about $100 million, road runner is twice as fast as the current No.1 IBM blue gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. It is the worlds first hybrid supercomputer with mixture of i86 opteron processors running on IBM LS-21 blade servers & cell processors running on IBMS QS22 servers. The machine is composed of a total 3060 blades.