IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy today announced a historic step in the computer industry, which has huge implications for a number of critical issues for society, such as climate change, alternative energy, and financial services. IBM supercomputer "Roadrunner", at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will be installed to protect the national security of the United States, has hit 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or "petalfop" in the sustainable success. To bring the dizzying performancein context, it would take the entire population of the earth - to every job a handheld calculator at a rate of 1 second per calculation, more than 456 years to do what Roadrunner in a day - about six billion people. The performance of the two times the current number one is driven supercomputer (IBM) and three times the next is competitive from the first supercomputer "hybrid" - one that uses Cell processors (the same chips that power today to the popular video-Games on Sony Playstation 3), x86-off-the-shelf running on standard IBM blade servers and Linux .. The concept of hybrid systems is an important step forward - is the way with sotware that a variety of commercial and consumer technologies can be linked together for any purpose by a great shared web site with a supercomputer on a single problem. The Cell processor is significantly faster on some calculations of the RoadRunner system can be small...
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