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Information Technology News IBM to build fastest supercomputer using PS3 chips
Information Technology News IBM to build fastest supercomputer using PS3 chips | IBM to build fastest supercomputer using PS3 chips |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 07 September 2006 | |
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If it achieves its expected performance, Roadrunner will be the first computer in history to enter the petaflop (quadrillion operations per second) class. IBM is crediting the performance boost of Roadrunner to the new Cell chip, of which there will be more than 16,000 running alongside 16000 Opteron processors. The new supercomputer will be housed at Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and used in simulations concerning the aging of nuclear materials. The power of the eight processor cell chip, which was jointly designed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony, has been recognized by researchers as a potential aid in solving high performance computing applications. Last month a project started by US biological scientists, called folding@home, announced its intention to enlist at least 10,000 PS3 consoles owned by gamers in a network to achieve supercomputing performance in determining how protein performance can cause diseases such as Alzheimer's and Cancer. According to the researchers a network of 10,000 PS3 consoles can also achieve petaflop performance and they eventually want to be the network to 100,000 consoles or more. {moscomment}
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