Cray‘s Titan supercomputer hassnatched the titleof human beings ’s quick from the National Nuclear Security Administration ’s Sequoia — and it ’s cray fast , as you might look .
power by a mixture of CPUs and GPUs , Titan is home to 18,688 node , each of which contains an AMD 16 - core Opteron and a NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU particle accelerator . All told , that ’s a humongous 560,640 processor , which are capable of 17.59 quadrillion operations per instant . For view , Sequoia snatched the top spot back in June with a mere 16.32 quadrillion .
And what the hell is all that computational bray power used for ? Well , Titan is housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , where it ’s used to execute calculations for textile research , nuclear Department of Energy enquiry , and analysis of techniques which can make combustion engines more effective . As well as paddle in climate model . No biggy , then , obviously . [ Top 500viaForbes ]
mental image by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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