IBM's new super computer, Roadrunner, is billed at the fastest in the world, operating at one petaflop or one thousand trillion calculations per second. The speed demon was built for the ...

IBM's mammoth Roadrunner recently broke the petaflop barrier and is billed as the faster computer in the world. The supercomputer was built for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security ...

A US supercomputer called Roadrunner has been switched off by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine was the first to operate at "petaflop pace" - the equivalent of 1,000 ...

Credit: LLNL The El Capitan supercomputer has officially become the fastest computer ever made, after scoring 1,742 PetaFLOPS on the High-Performance Linkpack benchmark. That puts it 400 PetaFLOPS ...

The announcement of the 2.5 petaflop mark comes just two years after IBM's RoadRunner system broke ... 1A system is located at China's National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, and was designed ...