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In 2006, the Department of Energys National Nuclear Security Administration selected Los Alamos National Laboratory as the development site for Roadrunner and IBM as the computers designer and builder. Roadrunner, named after the New Mexico state bird, cost about $100 million, and was a three-phase project to deliver the worlds first hybrid supercomputer one powerful enough to operate at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second). Thats twice as fast as the current No.1 rated IBM Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab itself nearly three times faster than the leading contenders on the current TOP 500 list of worldwide supercomputers.