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Oak Ridge Lab builds world's fastest computer, still can't divide by zero |
November 14, 2012
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan Cray XK7 supercomputer is officially the world’s fastest data cruncher just after being unveiled last week. According to IEEE Spectrum , Top 500 released an updated list Wednesday morning at the SC12 Supercomputing Conference that shows the Titan toppling its competition with 17.59 petaFLOPS of processing power.
The specs behind Titan’s processing strength include a total of 18,688 nodes, each containing a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 CPU paired with a NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU, as well as 710 terabytes of memory. All this hardware is capable of reaching a theoretical peak performance of 27 quadrillion calculations per second (27 petaFLOPS).
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