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June 9, 2008 (Computerworld) IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer has smashed the high-tech equivalent of the four-minute mile by breaking the lofty petaflop barrier.

IBM executives announced today that the company’s latest supercomputer — a hybrid system running AMD Opteron processors and Cell chips — sustained a speed of 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. That’s about twice as fast as the next-fastest supercomputer, IBM’s BlueGene/L, which is based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The new machine would need a single week to run a calculation that the fastest supercomputer 10 years ago would have needed 20 years to complete.

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