Top500 released their November list of supercomputers, and it turns out that IBM’s Roadrunner beat Cray’s XT Jaguar in their Linpack benchmark. The Roadrunner achieved 1105.00 teraflops while the Jaguar achieved a slightly less 1059.00 teraflops.

Cray has recently regained the title of “world’s fastest computer” with their XT Jaguar which is the result of a partnership among DOE, ORNL and Cray. The Cray XT Jaguar uses over 45,000 of the latest quad-core Opteron processors from AMD and features 362 terabytes of memory and a 10-petabyte file system. The machine has 578 [...]