Los Alamos' Road Runner Super Computer Meep meep. courtesy of the Department of EnergyFrom Popular Science:
Petaflop power in action.
In November of last year, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory switched on Roadrunner, the world's fastest computer. IBM and the Department of Energy built the machine to model nuclear explosions, but two new studies, both released today, are proof that the computer's massive power has been at least as devoted to peaceful science as to simulating thermonuclear weapons.
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