http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/09/07/ibm.supercomputer.reut/index.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for 
the U.S. Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed 
of 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, the department 
said on Wednesday.

The new computer, dubbed "Roadrunner", will be built at the Los Alamos 
National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Congress provided $35 million in fiscal 2006, which ends on September 30, 
to launch the computer project.

Roadrunner may eventually be used for an Energy Department program that 
ensures the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons is safe and reliable without 
the resumption of underground testing, the department said in a statement.

The machine is to be built entirely from commercially available hardware 
and based on the Red Hat Linux Version 4.3 operating system, it said. 

IBM System x 3755 systems based on AMD Opteron technology will be deployed 
in conjunction with IBM BladeCenter H systems with Cell technology.

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