Editing Cell (processor) (section)

===Supercomputing===
IBM's supercomputer, [[IBM Roadrunner]], was a hybrid of General Purpose x86-64 [[Opteron]] as well as Cell processors. This system assumed the #1 spot on the June 2008 Top 500 list as the first supercomputer to run at [[FLOPS|petaFLOPS]] speeds, having gained a sustained 1.026 petaFLOPS speed using the standard [[LINPACK benchmark]]. IBM Roadrunner used the PowerXCell 8i version of the Cell processor, manufactured using 65&nbsp;nm technology and enhanced SPUs that can handle double precision calculations in the 128-bit registers, reaching double precision 102&nbsp;GFLOPs per chip.<ref name="roadrunner">{{Cite web |title=Beyond a Single Cell |url=http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/cell2006/cell-slides/04-Ken-Koch.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708143100/http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/cell2006/cell-slides/04-Ken-Koch.pdf |archive-date=July 8, 2009 |access-date=April 6, 2017 |publisher=Los Alamos National Laboratory |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="cellscientific">{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Samuel |last2=Shalf |first2=John |last3=Oliker |first3=Leonid |last4=Husbands |first4=Parry |last5=Kamil |first5=Shoaib |last6=Yelick |first6=Katherine |date=2005 |title=The Potential of the Cell Processor for Scientific Computing |url=http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4262&context=lbnl |access-date=April 6, 2017 |publisher=ACM Computing Frontiers}}</ref>