IBM Roadrunner supercomputer

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The IBM Roadrunner supercomputer was a pioneering petascale system that combined Cell Broadband Engine and x86 processors to become the first computer to sustain over one petaflop of performance.

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instanceOf petascale computer
supercomputer
achievedMilestone first computer to sustain over one petaflop
alsoKnownAs Roadrunner supercomputer NERFINISHED
architecture hybrid Cell and x86 architecture
becameOperational 2008
benchmark LINPACK NERFINISHED
city Los Alamos NERFINISHED
commissionedBy U.S. Department of Energy NERFINISHED
constructionStartDate 2006
cost approximately 100 million US dollars
country United States of America
surface form: United States
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
dateReachedTop500Rank1 June 2008
decommissioned 2013
energyEfficiency about 444 megaflops per watt
field high-performance computing
firstPetaflopDate May 2008 GENERATED
firstPetascaleSystem true GENERATED
hostInstitution Los Alamos National Laboratory NERFINISHED
interconnect InfiniBand NERFINISHED
locatedIn Los Alamos National Laboratory NERFINISHED
New Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
manufacturer IBM NERFINISHED
memory about 103 terabytes
notableFor first sustained petaflop performance on LINPACK benchmark
numberOfNodes approximately 3,000 compute nodes
operatingSystem Linux
peakPerformance 1.7 petaflops
powerConsumption about 2.35 megawatts
primaryUser Los Alamos National Laboratory NERFINISHED
processorType Cell Broadband Engine NERFINISHED
x86-64
projectPartner IBM NERFINISHED
Los Alamos National Laboratory NERFINISHED
state New Mexico
storageCapacity about 1.7 petabytes
successorInTop500Rank1 Cray Jaguar NERFINISHED
sustainedPerformance 1.026 petaflops
top500List June 2008 TOP500 list
top500Rank 1
usedFor national security applications
nuclear weapons simulations
scientific computing
usedProcessorModel AMD Opteron NERFINISHED
IBM PowerXCell 8i NERFINISHED

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Cell Broadband Engine usedIn IBM Roadrunner supercomputer