World's fastest: IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer breaks petaflop barrier using Cell

[jako]

World's fastest: IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer breaks petaflop barrier using Cell and Opteron processors

Don't know if that should be in the tech central thread or here, but anyway here it is :

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/

At last cell processor gets a way through high end supercomputers.

[frosty]

There is already a thread in tech central, and since this only uses a part of ps3, and has no actual relation to the system itself other than the CPU, it doesn't really belong here.