Nothing Catches This 'Roadrunner': ; Computing Power Equals Stack of Laptops More Than 1 Mile High

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WASHINGTON - Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.

The technology breakthrough announced Monday was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions.

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Nothing Catches This 'Roadrunner': ; Computing Power Equals Stack of Laptops More Than 1 Mile High

The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itse...

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