Roadrunner-First petaflop supercomputer

From FutureNovo - Anticipating things to come

On July 9, 2008, IBM announced that it's "Roadrunner" supercomputer had a achieved a peak performance of 1.144 petaflop/s running the Linpack benchmark, making it the first supercomputer to reach the petaflop mark. (One petaflop equals 10¹⁵ floating point operations per second.)

Within a week of achieving the record, Los Alamos and IBM researcher were testing the supercomputer with code dubbed "PetaVision", a program which simulates the human visual cortex.