Only the name has changed. IBM retained the title of fastest PC manufacturers in the world. Instead of the perennial winner of the Blue Gene / L, this time, Roadrunner is located in the SU Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory. The IBM supercomputer has a speed of petaflops, First ever attained by any team.
The ranking was announced Wednesday during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, a biannual event that ranks 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. According to the TOP500 ranking, we achieved a peak performance of 1,026 petaFLOPS (floating point operations per second) come first. A petaflop equals one trillion, or billion dollar calculations per second. The No. 2 Blue Gene / L, also built by IBM Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieved a speed of 478.2 teraflops.
IBM Roadrunner is powered by 12,240 IBM PowerXCell 8i chips cell similar to those found in console games. The functions basic computers are managed by AMD Opteron 6562 dual core, leaving the cellular chips available to meet the heavy lifting required for computing intensive calculations in which the specialized processors. You need the space of 278 refrigerator-sized racks of servers.
IBM, continuing its dominance in the high performance computing, makes 210 of the 500 supercomputers. 5 of the 10 supercomputers is IBM. Just behind them is HP (Hewlett-Packard), that 183 of the fastest computers.
The Top 10 fastest supercomputers
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- The fastest supercomputer the world is also one of increased energy efficiency.
- The No. 1, 2, 3 and 5 are in the laboratories of U.S. Department of Energy.
- The United States remains the center of supercomputers in the world, with over half of the systems (257) located in the United States,
- The U.S. is followed by the UK with 53, Germany 46, France 34, Japan with 22 and China with 12. More than half of the systems used Quad-Core.
- Most of the systems (208, 500) contain between 2049 and 4096 processors. It is more than double the systems that use that amount just six months.
- Intel dominates the market for high-end processors, with 75 percent of all systems on the list and 90 per percent of the quad-core based systems that have been classified.
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