IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal (ZDNet)

ZDNet reports that IBM has won a contract with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to build a Linux-based 16,000 processor supercomputer that will boast a performance of around 1 petaflop. "the machine, dubbed Roadrunner, uses a hybrid approach that combines a conventional cluster of Opteron servers with Cell chips that handle some of the calculating grunt work. Each Cell chip, originally designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba for the Sony PlayStation 3 video game console, includes eight special-purpose engines that can rapidly perform physics calculations."

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