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The Los Alamos Roadrunner Project was a joint Los Alamos and IBM project that developed the first supercomputer to break the Petaflop barrier on a Linpack run for the Top500 list.
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In 2002, Los Alamos and IBM began to explore the potential of a new class of power-efficient high-performance computing systems based on a radical view of the future of supercomputing. The resulting LANL Roadrunner project had three primary roles: (1) an advanced architecture which presaged the primary components of next generation supercomputing systems; (2) a uniquely capable software and hardware environment for investigation and solution of science and engineering problems of importance to the US Department of Energy (DOE). Section 5.1 describes some of the key LANL applications that were studied; and (3) achievement of the first sustained petaflops.
A significant point in the thinking surrounding petascale and now exascale computing, is that...
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Grice, D., White, A.B. (2011). Roadrunner Project, Los Alamos. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_411
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