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Roadrunner - the Acme Supercomputer
Many of my former colleagues at Cray should be very proud of their achievements when they read about the latest and greatest supercomputer announced by IBM. Without their efforts in working out precisely how thousands of processors could be made to work as if they were one, we would still be struggling to get computer power much above where it was two decades ago when single-processors dominated. It's much like bureaucracy on a huge scale. Putting two bureaucrats together doesn't double the amount of work that gets done, and adding a thousand more doesn't increase it a thousand fold either.

Lead engineer Don Grice of IBM inspects Roadrunner. Copyright IBM
Mark Griffin
Mark founded Cyberpoint back in March 1995 when he realised how important the Internet was to become, and he has been fully vindicated in that confidence.


