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Associated Press - June 24, 2009 10:15 AM ET
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer remains the fastest in the world.
It's the third time in a row that the northern New Mexico laboratory's computer has led the Top500 list, issued twice a year.
The Roadrunner turned in a performance of 1.105 petaflops per second. A petaflop is a quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
Roadrunner was the first supercomputer to break the petaflop speed barrier.
The Roadrunner project director, Andy White, says the lab is pleased to be number one again, but the focus is to use the system for science and move Roadrunner into classified operation.
Currently, it's running computational models, including HIV and supernovae calculations.
Information from: Los Alamos Monitor, http://www.lamonitor.com
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