Pentagon/IBM Create World's Fastest Computer


	Pentagon/IBM Create World's Fastest Computer

Andy Greenberg

6-9-2008 10:22 AM

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ibm, supercomputer, pentagon, roadrunner

Andy Greenberg says:

A few other bits from the Times' article: The Roadrunner will consume about as much power as a large shopping mall, and is based on more than 12,000 IBM Cell microprocessors, which were originally developed for the Playstation 3.

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