IBM's new supercomptuer mimics brain function.
It’s called the Roadrunner and it might be faster then a human brain. IBM and the Los Alamos National Laboratory turn the new supercomputer on only a week ago and scientists are working hard to push the computer to its limits.
The primary goal of the supercomputer is to model the safety of the United States’ aging nuclear weapons stockpile. At over a certified petaflop, the machine renders calculations in a day that would take every person on Earth a calculator and 46 years to accomplish. Top speed has been clocked at 1.144 petaflop per second. Now that’s fast!
