2 posts and columns on petaflop

Nvidia Chips to Power World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

in Enterprise on October 11, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

The U.S. government announces plans to build the next great supercomputer. What’s new is that its main computing element will come from Nvidia.
Oak Ridge National Lab's "Jaguar" computer

Ah, But Is It Vista Capable?

in News on June 18, 2008 at 7:36 am PT

It’s likely a challenge to program and a bitch to debug, but IBM’s new Roadrunner supercomputer is the most powerful in the world. With 12,240 cell processors typically found in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console and another 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron chips, Roadrunner has been benchmarked at 1.026 petaflops (1.026 quadrillion calculations per second).