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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SignificanceIt became the world's first TOP500 LINPACK sustained one petaflop system. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Roadrunner (supercomputer)
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the world's first TOP500 LINPACK sustained 1.0 petaflops system
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