“Beep beep! Sorry coyote, but you’re still not wily enough to
touch Roadrunner, IBM’s supercomputer, billed as the fastest in the
world operating at 1 petaflop or 1,000 trillion calculations per
second.“To be housed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New
Mexico, IBM built Roadrunner for the Department of Energy’s
National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure the safety and
reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. The
supercomputer, named after New Mexico’s state bird, will also be
used for astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change
research…”