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Old June 10th, 2008   #1
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A new supercomputer in the U.S. has broken a barrier that many thought wouldn’t be broken for years to come. A new supercomputer-- dubbed Roadrunner-- has broken the petaflop barrier.

The Roadrunner supercomputer costs $133 million and is built using chips from both consumer electronics and more common server processors.
Roadrunner has 12,960 chips that are an improved version of the Cell chip used in the PS3. These Cell processors act as a turbocharger for certain portions of the calculations the Roadrunner processes. The computer also uses a smaller, unspecified number of AMD Opteron processors.







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Holy. Dude, thats FAST!!!!!!!!

Of course, only the military could do that....
133mil though? Dang.
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"Thomas P. D’Agostino of the National Nuclear Security Administration said that if all 6 billion people on Earth entered calculations on a calculator for 24 hours a day, seven days per week it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day."
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leave it to Parker and his young superman hands to do it all in 23 years







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leave it to Parker and his young superman hands to do it all in 23 years
HAHA, very funny screwby.

Thats one fast computer though......
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Wonder if if could run the new Crysis: Warhead at max



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Wonder if if could run the new Crysis: Warhead at max
Probably not Probably has some crappy video card LOL
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Very nice...be excellent for a gaming or search engine website server!
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