Roadrunner Supercomputer Breaks the Petaflop Barrier
Charlie McMillan, Lin Fei Yin · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2008
At 3:30 a.m. on May 26, 2008, Memorial Day, the supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflop/s, or 1 million billion calculations per second. The sustained performance makes Roadrunner more than twice as fast as the current number 1