IBM to build 1 Petaflop SuperComputer - Running Linux
Written By: Joseph Gillespie
IBM has announced that it will be building a supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department that will be capable of a sustained speed of 1,000 Trillion caculations per second, or one Petaflop. The computer will be dubbed "RoadRunner" and is being built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Congress provided $35 Million in fiscal 2006 (ends on September 30) to launch the super computer project. Roadrunner will be used to provide caculations for the Energy Department that ensures U.S. stockpiles of nuclear weapons is safe, eliminating the need for dangerous underground testing.
Roadrunner is planned to be built entirely from commercially available hardware. It will also run an OS based on Red Hat Linux Version 4.3. IBM System x 3755 systems based on AMD Opteron technology will be deployed in conjunction with IBM BladeCenter H systems with Cell technology. There is currently no word on when the computer will be completed.
Last Modified: September 6th, 2006
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