Roadrunner Supercomputer has broken the petraflop barrier to become the world’s fastest supercomputer. Roadrunner Supercomputer is a American military supercomputer has broken the 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second barrier.
Oddly enough the computer is not built from any weird advanced technology: just normal commercial computer chips including some used in video games. The clever engineering is in the parallel computing to make the Roadrunner Supercomputer and its petraflop speed twice the speed of the previous fastest computer. The people who brought you the world’s fastest computer are big blue too - IBM - they still make some of the biggest and obviousl the fastest supercomptures in the world