Roadrunner
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News: Roadrunner Technical Seminars: March-June 2008RoadrunnerLos Alamos National Laboratory is installing a new supercomputer named Roadrunner, after the speedy New Mexico state bird. IBM is building the supercomputer, which will run Linux. The Roadrunner Project has three phases. During Phase 1, Los Alamos acquired, installed and deployed more than 81 teraFLOPS of a base capacity system to provide capacity computing cycles in the near-term. Phase 2 was a technology refresh and assessment of the final system. Phase 3, now underway, is the combined advanced architecture hardware and the base system that create a hybrid computing architecture that has the potential for significant improvements in the price/performance curve to help meet future ASC computing requirements. Roadrunner is the first supercomputer to use this hybrid processor architecture, which is based on both Opteron X64 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and the IBM Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) processing elements. |