Amazing Machine - IBM Road Runner

Roadrunner is a supercomputer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. Currently the world's fastest computer, the US$133-million Roadrunner is designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops, achieving 1.026 on May 25, 2008, and to be the world's first TOP500 Linpack sustained 1.0 petaflops system.

It is a one-of-a-kind supercomputer, built from commodity parts, with many novel design features.

IBM Roadrunner
Roadrunner components
Dates	operational 2008, final completion 2009
Sponsors	IBM,  United States
Operators	National Nuclear Security Administration,  United States
Location	Los Alamos National Laboratory,  United States
Architecture	12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs, 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors, Infiniband, Linux
Power	2.35 MW
Space	296 racks, 6,000 sq ft (560 m2)
Memory	103.6 TiB
Speed	1.71 petaflops (peak)
Cost	US$133M
Ranking	TOP500: 1, June 2008
Purpose	Modeling the decay of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Legacy	First TOP500 Linpack sustained 1.0 petaflops, May 25, 2008
Web site	http://www.lanl.gov/roadrunner/

Reference: www.wikipedia.com