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Roadrunner Supercomputer Breaks the Petaflop Barrier
At 3:30 a.m. on May 26, 2008, Memorial Day, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer performed more than twice as fast as the current number 1 system on the TOP500 list. "Petaflops" is computer jargon—peta signifying the number 1 followed by 15 zeros (sometimes called a quadrillion) and flop/s meaning "double-precision floating point operations per second." The full-scale Roadrunner machine operates more than 10 times faster than the current installed system. Phase 2 of the Roadrunner project was completed in October 2007. For more information about Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, visit the Roadrunner website.
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