IBM computer remains world's fastest
Triangle Business Journal
An IBM system is still the world’s most powerful supercomputer, Big Blue said Monday.
According to the biannual rankings put together by researchers in Germany and the U.S., IBM’s system at Los Alamos National Laboratory in California barely held on to the top spot.
The system, nicknamed Roadrunner, clocks in at a speed of 1.105 “petaflops.” One petaflop is equal to 1 quadrillion calculations per second; Roadrunner topped the petaflop barrier in June.
Roadrunner held off a challenge from supercomputer company Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY), whose Jaguar system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee now runs at 1.059 petaflops.
A system made by IBM (NYSE: IBM) has been the most powerful computer in the world since November 1999, the company says.
IBM, which has headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., employs 11,000 people in the Triangle.
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