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Titan supercomputer debuts: Computer churns through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second |
October 29, 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has just launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second -- or 20 petaflops -- by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers.
Link: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/computer_science/~3/22pXAVm5Dy8/121029103506.htm
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