A supercomputer from the United States military, roadrunner, built with the original components, designed for video game machines, and able to perform the calculation of data from more 1.026×1015 calculations per second. Roadrunner this price range USD 133 million and will be used to study nuclear weapons. Machines computer is twice faster than the previous fastest supercomputer, IBM BlueGene / L, which is in the laboratory LLN (Lawrence Livermore National), California.
Super Computer roadrunner will referenced New Mexico City was built by engineers and scientists from IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Super Computer used to solve military problems to ensure the supply of nuclear weapons will work with the national good. Roadrunner is able to simulate how nuclear weapons work in a small explosion. In addition to the military to solve problems, roadrunner can also be used to identify the problems of climate change. With high-speed, roadrunner can help scientists to test global climate accurately.
Petaflop, the results of performance roadrunner is able to calculate a thousand trillion calculations per second, the attention of the military organization, technical, scientists and even Japan and China. Roadrunner built on a radical design that has a 12960 chip, which is an innovation of the IBM Cell microprocessor, a chip parallel, which also created a video game on Sony’s PlayStation 3. Sony chip is used to accelerate, turbocharger, and calculate the share calculations. Roadrunner uses the energy of three-megawatt and a separate program because Roadrunner has three types of processors. In this case, programmers must maintain the process of 116,640 processors that can work simultaneously and effectively. This is because in a few years, PC (Personal Computer) will have tens or hundreds of microprocessor chips in it.
