IBM unveils world's fastest computer - 'Roadrunner'
The U.S. Department of Energy reports the world's fastest computer, a hybrid supercomputer codenamed "Roadrunner," can compute 1,000 trillion operations per second.


June 9, 2008 (Sawf News) - The U.S. Department of Energy reports the world's fastest computer, a hybrid supercomputer codenamed "Roadrunner," can compute 1,000 trillion operations per second.

The machine was designed by IBM and uses Cell Broadband Engine chips, technology originally developed for video game platforms.

"Roadrunner" was built for the Department of Energy's