A US supercomputer called Roadrunner has been switched off by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine was the first to operate at "petaflop pace" - the equivalent of 1,000 ...

IBM's new super computer, Roadrunner, is billed at the fastest in the world, operating at one petaflop or one thousand trillion calculations per second. The speed demon was built for the ...

While the NNSA uses its supercomputers to maintain the US nuclear weapons stockpile, they are also used for a number of other scientific initiatives. Roadrunner, for example, has been used to run ...

The world's second fastest supercomputer — it used to be the fastest, before its rival machine came online earlier this month — has created the most complex computer simulation of the universe ...

In 2008, IBM's Roadrunner was the first computer to exceed one petaFLOPS (see Roadrunner). In 2010, China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer claimed the top speed with 2.4 petaFLOPS. Meaning "Milky Way ...