New Military Supercomputer Breaks Performance Record

New Military Supercomputer Breaks Performance Record

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A new supercomputer in the U.S. has broken a barrier that many thought wouldn’t be broken for years to come. A new supercomputer-- dubbed Roadrunner-- has broken the petaflop barrier.

Roadrunner was designed by engineers and scientists at IBM and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ultimately, Roadrunner will be placed into a classified environment where it will be used to simulate what effects aging has on the stockpile of nuclear weapons the U.S. has in its arsenal.

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Amazing how fast technology can advance. The Gov't and the MIC are inching ever closer to the Technological Singularity and the construction of their "God on Earth" system . I think the implications are unprecedented.

To put the processing power in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino of the National Nuclear Security Administration said that if all 6 billion people on Earth entered calculations on a calculator for 24 hours a day, seven days per week it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day.

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Does anybody know if this Roadrunner super-computer has an artificial 'voice'? And if so... does it sound like the 1970 "Colossus: The Forbin Project" super-computer? That would be awesome! "This is the voice of world control". - quote from Colossus