Roadrunner : IBM aiming to build a petaflop capable supercomputer

Roadrunner : IBM aiming to build a petaflop capable supercomputer

US based tech giant IBM has said that they are going to build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department.

This supercomputer would have the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

IBM has codenamed this supercomputer “Roadrunner” and it would be built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

It is expected to be used by the Energy Department to ensure that the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons is safe and reliable without the resumption of underground testing.

IBM added that this system would be build entirely from commercially available hardware and would use Red Hat Linux Version 4.3 operating system. AMD Opteron and IBM Cell processors are expected to be used in this supercomputer.