http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...n-supercomputer-now-officially-worlds-fastest
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan is the worlds fastest supercomputer. It has officially recorded speeds of 17.59 petaflops which is quadrillions of calculations per second. Also, its entire computing apparatus fits into the same 200 server cabinets as the 2.3 petaflop Jaguar which it replaced. It uses hybrid processing which means it uses GPUs to augment the central processing units. They did this because GPUs are better than CPUs when it comes to operations that involve parallel kinds of computing.
"By coupling NVIDIA Tesla GPUs with 16-core AMD CPUs, the engineers at Cray that built Titan for ORNL were able to increase computing performance by a factor several times greater than its increase in energy consumption (or size)."
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How fast do you think supercomputers will be 10 years from now?
Go USA!
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan is the worlds fastest supercomputer. It has officially recorded speeds of 17.59 petaflops which is quadrillions of calculations per second. Also, its entire computing apparatus fits into the same 200 server cabinets as the 2.3 petaflop Jaguar which it replaced. It uses hybrid processing which means it uses GPUs to augment the central processing units. They did this because GPUs are better than CPUs when it comes to operations that involve parallel kinds of computing.
"By coupling NVIDIA Tesla GPUs with 16-core AMD CPUs, the engineers at Cray that built Titan for ORNL were able to increase computing performance by a factor several times greater than its increase in energy consumption (or size)."
I thought this was pretty cool so decided to share it with y'all.
How fast do you think supercomputers will be 10 years from now?
