Road runner is the first and only supercomputer in the world that executing more than 1 quadrillion (1,000 trillion) floating point operations per second, a computation rate otherwise known as 1 petaflop. It is built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA.
The customer configuration of road runner uses two IBM QS22 blade servers which are combined into a specialized "tri-blade" configuration. Each tri-blade unit can handle 400 billion instructions per second (400 Gigaflops). In total, Roadrunner has 3,456 tri-blades.
The memory of the road runner is 80 terabytes is housed in 288 refrigerator-sized, IBM Blade Center racks taking up 6,000 square feet. Roadrunner has several 10,000 connections which use both Infiniband and Gigabit Ethernet for achieve the high data rate for the system.
Roadrunner uses a first-of-a-kind design, the Cell Broadband Engine which provides very high processing ability. The engine will work in conjunction with AMD's x86 processors.
Roadrunner's speed is roughly equivalent to the combined computing power of 100,000 of today's fastest laptop computers which is a very high power. As an example assume that each human (6 billion people) perform a calculation at a second which take 46 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day
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