The world's fastest ever supercomputer capable of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, called 'Roadrunner',
has been developed by IBM for helping the US government to help it conduct nuclear safety tests. Does that mean we won't see any more mushroom clouds in the Nevada desert ? They will have to rewrite the next installment of the “HULK” when it comes out. I'd just wished they would have used this machine for more pressing problems like cleaner water or a cure for HIV.
According to VNUnet :
The computer is being bought by the US Department of Energy (DoE) for use at its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos laboratory, and will be made by IBM. Roadrunner will be the first supercomputer of its kind to use the Cell processor, which was originally designed to be used in the latest generation of video game consoles. It will surpass the world's current fastest computer, BlueGene/L, which was also built by IBM for the US DoE for its Lawrence Livermore laboratory.
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