Beep Beep: IBM Roadrunner Breaks Petaflop Record

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Rack Moved And PDU Cabling

The system has 80 terabytes of memory and is housed in 288 refrigerator-sized, IBM BladeCenter racks taking up 6,000 square feet. Roadrunner's 10,000 connections -- both Infiniband and Gigabit Ethernet -- require 57 miles of fiber optic cable and weigh a whopping 500,000 lbs.

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