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Fastest Computer Relative of PS3

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Written by Greg Peretti
Monday, 09 June 2008
Los Alamos National Laboratory can now claim to have the fastest supercomputer in the world, due in large part to the PlayStation3.   The computer, dubbed Roadrunner, is comprised of 20,000 processors - 13,000 of them being IBM Cell processors, the brain of the PS3. Roadrunner is capable of processing more than one thousand trillion calculations per second, twice as fast as its nearest competitor. Comment on this article Send your comments to ABQjournal (Show/Hide Form) Your Name: Your Email Address: Rate this article: Poor Great Comment: BOLD "QUOTE" UNDERLINE Other Visitors Comments There are no comments approved to share, thanks for your comments ....		< Previous story   Next >

 

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