World's fastest supercomputer runs Linux

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 11, 2008 7:15 AM EDT
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IBM announced the completion of a one-petaflop supercomputer that runs Red Hat Linux. Twice as fast as the previous record-setter, the IBM Blue Gene, the Roadrunner uses a hybrid design that combines 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips with 12,960 Cell processor engines.

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