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Roadrunner (supercomputer)

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Roadrunner was a supercomputer built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States. The 100 million dollar system was designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops, and on May 25, 2008, it achieved 1.026 petaflops to become the world's first TOP500 LINPACK sustained one petaflop system.

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Year
2008 2
Significance
It became the world's first TOP500 LINPACK sustained one petaflop system. 1
Status
Status
Discontinued 1
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1. Wikipedia: Roadrunner (supercomputer)
  • Body, Introduction
    the world's first TOP500 LINPACK sustained 1.0 petaflops system
  • Lead sentence
    Roadrunner was a supercomputer built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. The US$100-million Roadrunner was designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops.
  • Lead section
    Roadrunner was decommissioned by Los Alamos on March 31, 2013.
  • In Group: IBM Supercomputers, built by IBM for Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • In Field: Computer Architecture, Lead paragraph
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2. Wikidata: IBM Roadrunner
Wikidata Q818756, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)View the Source
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