The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose IBM Corp. to build a new supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, IBM announced Wednesday.
Named "Roadrunner," the new machine comes with a price tag of US$35 million, the amount allotted by the U.S. Congress to the DOE's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) for its purchase.
One potential use for Roadrunner is to monitor and maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. DOE officials said they would monitor the computer's development to see if it meets the criteria to perform that task. The DOE has used supercomputers to keep an eye on the health and readiness of the U.S.'s nuclear weapons, in lieu of actual underground nuclear tests.
Roadrunner will run Red Hat Inc.'s version 4.3 Linux operating system, and will be built entirely with commercially available hardware running two different types of processors, IBM said. The company will use IBM x3755 systems, with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron processor, alongside IBM BladeCenter H systems with Cell processors.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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