Beep Beep: IBM Roadrunner Breaks Petaflop Record

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Roadrunner's speed is roughly equivalent to the combined computing power of 100,000 of today's fastest laptop computers -- users would need a stack of laptops 1.5 miles high to match Roadrunner's performance. It would also take the entire population of the earth -- about six billion people -- each working a handheld calculator at the rate of one second per calculation taking more than 46 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day.

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