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The IBM Roadrunner Supercomputer

The IBM Roadrunner Supercomputer. Who was the Inventor?. International Business Machines (IBM) built the Roadrunner. Not only did they make the Roadrunner, they also built the Blue Gene

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The IBM Roadrunner Supercomputer

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  1. The IBM Roadrunner Supercomputer

  2. Who was the Inventor? • International Business Machines (IBM) built the Roadrunner. • Not only did they make the Roadrunner, they also built the Blue Gene • They pioneer in computer technology, the Roadrunner is the fastest supercomputer in the world breaking the petaflop barrier at 1.7 petaflops (1,700 trillion calculations per second.)

  3. What is the purpose and importance of this invention? • IBM built the Roadrunner for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. • The DOE plans to use this computer for simulating how nuclear materials age in order to predict whether the USA’s aging arsenal of nuclear weapons are safe and reliable. • Other uses for the Roadrunner include science, financial, automotive, and aerospace industries.

  4. Where did IBM invent the Roadrunner? • IBM built the Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. • The Roadrunner consists of 296 refrigerator-sized racks that occupies 6,000 sq. ft. of the laboratory (560 sq. km.)

  5. When was the Roadrunner invented? • The Roadrunner was invented and developed from late December 2007 to April 2009. • Test day was on May 25, 2008 when the Roadrunner achieved a top performance of 1.026 petaflops.

  6. In what ways did the Roadrunner affect the environment? • The Roadrunner is the fourth-most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world on the Supermicro Green500 list, with an operational rate of 444.94 megaflops per watt of power used.

  7. Development • Phase 1: Build the Opteron based cluster • Phase 2: Advanced Architecture Initial System, to include a smaller version of the hybrid using older versions of the Cell processor. • Phase 3: To reach 1 petaflops.

  8. Roadrunner’s Software • The Roadrunner runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with Fedora 10 Linux as its operating systems. • It is managed with xCAT distributed computing software. • It also uses Open MPI Message Passage Interface implementation.

  9. Roadrunner’s Processor Architecture • The Roadrunner runs on 13,284 AMD Opteron Cores @ 1.8 GHz+116,640 IBM PowerXCell 8i Cores @ 3.2GHz

  10. TriBlade Architecture • The TriBlade Architecture consists of two dual-core Opterons with 16 GB of RAM and four PowerXCell 8i CPUs with 16 GB of Cell RAM.

  11. Cool Facts • The Roadrunner is as big as a building. • The Roadrunner’s calculating capacity is the same as everybody in the world doing 42,000 calculations in one second.

  12. Roadrunner Video

  13. Bibliography • "IBM - Supercomputer - United States." IBM - United States. Web. 17 Dec. 2009. <http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/roadrunner/20080609/index.shtml>. • "IBM Roadrunner -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 17 Dec. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner>. • "Roadrunner ppt Ebook Download." Document Search. Web. 17 Dec. 2009. <http://www.osun.org/roadrunner-ppt.html>.

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