IBM Plans to Build Super Computer "Roadrunner"

Posted Sep 6, 2006 at 12:21AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Los Alamos, Opteron, Roadrunner, Supercomputer, supercomputers

IBM wins the bid to build "Roadrunner", a supercomputer system that will compete (and hopes to outdo) Japan's "Protein Explorer" and its own Blue Gene/L. IBM-Los Alamos will announce the plans as to when the project will officially start, but it's going to be a phase by phase process that begins this September and ends in 2007.

It seems a little off-topic, PS3 fans should start rejoicing. The Roadrunner kicks off a new trend in supercomputing, which relies on "hybrids" to sustain the performance level of a "petaflop," or 1 quadrillion calculations per second. These hybrids are a combination of general-purpose processors and special-purpose accelerator chips. In this case, it's going to be not just Opteron chips, but the Cell processor from Sony's PS3 as well. The Cell processor as we know it was originally designed to improve video game performance in the PlayStation 3 console.

Obviously, this is going to lead us to a futuristic conclusion: With more powerful petaflop-churning supercomputers, there will be greater possibility for more high-speed gaming systems and machines to come out in the future. Also, because the U.S. government has become an avid supercomputer customer, the nuclear simulations will be continuously fueled.

Gaming, as we know it, will never be the same again.

Via ZDNet

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I don't really care about a new super powered computer, I mean, my ps3 will run linux and surely windows, that's all I want, it's not like we'll see "road runner" in our house this decade lol.

anyway I suppose it's cool they use the cell chip prossessor we'll have in the ps3 too boost the power to the limit.

# ps4 will be a monster — Guest 2006-09-06 15:25

ps4 will be king

# you idiot — Guest 2006-09-07 01:12

This has absolutely nothing to do with the ps3. nothing. IBM makes both the 360 and the ps3 chips so this could just as easily make it in to microsofts next console.

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