The world's fastest supercomputer in November 2008 is a system at Los Alamos National Laboratory called Roadrunner. Roadrunner is one of two supercomputers in the world to break the petaflop (1000 trillion floating point operations a second) barrier and posted a top performance of 1.105 petaflops, barely edging out a machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which achieved a peak performance of 1.059 petaflops. 
 

Six of China’s top ten supercomputers are not dedicated to scientific, military, or commercial applications, but to gaming, which some have dubbed the nation's ninth mode of art.