22 août 2009 - IBM's Roadrunner
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Computer-enhanced image of IBM’s RoadrunnerThe Roadrunner is the first computer to reach a sustained performance of 1 petaflop (one thousand trillion floating point operations per second). It used two different microprocessors: an IBM POWER XCell L8i and AMD Opteron. It was used to model the decay of the US nuclear arsenal, analyze financial data, and render 3D medical images in real-time. An offshoot of the POWER XCell8i chip was used as the main processor in the Sony PlayStation 3 game console.
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Date:
22 août 2009
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~ Il y a 15 ans