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A new supercomputer, developed by the American military, is more than twice as fast as the next fastest supercomputer. According to IHT, The IBM BlueGene/L was “assembled from components originally designed for video game machines.” The machine is housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and is able to process more than 1.026 quadrillion (one thousand trillion) calculations per second. This computing goal, known as a petaflop, is a critical “milestone for the military, technical and scientific organizations.” It is felt that the $133 million, petaflop machine, called Roadrunner, will be able to calculate advanced weather, nuclear, and technical scenarios previously impossible to obtain. The computer was developed by engineers and scientists at both IBM and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
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