Supercomputer
October 9th, 2009 | Author: Farid
Supercomputer is a computer with capabilities far superior to the commonly available computers to the general public when it was built.
Normally used in specialized jobs that requires high performance. This includes medicine, science, advanced engineering, among others. An example is the Roadrunner supercomputer, IBM engineers and laboratory at Los Alamos worked six years in computer technology. Some elements of Roadrunner have the popular video game history, according to David Turek, vice president of the IBM supercomputer program. In some ways, this is a superior version of Sony PlayStation 3, he said. “We took the basic design of the chip (PlayStation) and improve their capacity,” said Turek.
But the Roadrunner supercomputer can hardly resemble a video game. The interconnection system occupies 557 m² of space. Account with 91.7 km of fiber optics and weighs 226.8 tonnes. The supercomputer is the IBM research laboratory in Poughkeepsie, New York and was transferred in July 2008 at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
