Busting petaflop barrier, Cray’s Jaguar may be world’s fastest computer
Nov 12th, 2008 in News
About five months after IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer became the fastest computer in the world, Cray Inc.’s XT Jaguar could dethrone it next week.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that the latest implementation of the XT Jaguar supercomputer at its Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., has hit a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops, or more than a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second. Last June, IBM’s Roadrunner hit a sustained speed of 1.026 petaflops and a few weeks later it was officially crowned the fastest computer in the world when it made the top spot on the semi-annual Top500 List of supercomputers.
Roadrunner was the first machine to pass the petaflop barrier, and industry watchers likened the achievement was to the first runner breaking the four-minute mile. However, they also noted that other companies, like Cray, were right on IBM’s heels.
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