Tag: Supercomputer

End of the road for Roadrunner:

LOS ALAMOS, N. M., March 29, 2013—Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the once-elusive petaflop barrier—one million billion calculations per second—will be decommissioned on Sunday, March 31.

Found via World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled:

Five years ago, an IBM-built supercomputer designed to model the decay of the US nuclear weapons arsenal was clocked at speeds no computer in the history of Earth had ever reached.… Continued