Wiring Up CU2
Roadrunner was built, tested and benchmarked at IBM's Poughkeepsie, N.Y. plant, which is also the home of the ASCI series of supercomputers the company built for the U.S. government in the late 1990s. IBM's site in Rochester, Minn. contributed to the project by constructing the specialized tri-blade servers. Later this summer, IBM will load the behemoth supercomputer onto 21 tractor trailer trucks to deliver it to the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.
