Roadrunner, the world’s latest super computer, performs million billion calculations per second. It is said that what takes 46 years for 6 million people to do a sum, Roadrunner does in one day. The very same sum will take 1500 years for the world’s first super computer, Cray 1. That should give you an idea about how fast Roadrunner is. It costs US $ 120 million.
It will help scientific studie4s like how HIV vaccines should be administered, mapping of human brain, nuclear fusion, which bring the world limitless cheap energy and climate change.
Based on “Roadrunner is here” by Ian Sample, Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2008 and excerpted from The Hindu, Madurai, June 11, 2008.
It will help scientific studie4s like how HIV vaccines should be administered, mapping of human brain, nuclear fusion, which bring the world limitless cheap energy and climate change.
Based on “Roadrunner is here” by Ian Sample, Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2008 and excerpted from The Hindu, Madurai, June 11, 2008.
Grateful thanks to Ian Sample, Guardian Newspapers Ltd and The Hindu.
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