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 ...

In 2008, IBM's Roadrunner was the first computer to exceed one petaFLOPS (see Roadrunner). In 2010, China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer claimed the top speed with 2.4 petaFLOPS. Meaning "Milky Way ...