IBM said that in the past 10 years, supercomputer power has increased about 1,000 times. Today, just three of Roadrunner's 3,456 tri-blade units have the same power as the 1998 fastest computer.

the first machine to reach a petaflop was IBM’s 2008 Roadrunner supercomputer. That cost $100m). All this power isn’t just about deploying AI learning to large datasets. There’s also ...