The Titan, the fastest supercomputer in the
world.
The Titan supercomputer has become the world’s fastest machine capable of
churning through 17.59 petaflops per second (quadrillions of calculations per
second).
The $100 million Titan, by the US based Cray Inc., which seized the No.1 supercomputer ranking on the Top 500 list, will be 10 times more powerful than Cray’s last world-leading system, Jaguar, which had set a world record for computer speed and claimed the No.1 spot on the list of the fastest supercomputers in 2009.
The Titan system is a 200-cabinet Cray XK7 supercomputer with 18,688 compute nodes, each consisting of a 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor and an NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator.
Titan is located at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US and will be used to perform calculations for materials research, nuclear energy research and analysis of techniques which can make combustion engines more efficient. Cray had last year announced that it had bagged the contract to upgrade the Jaguar to Titan.
Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray, said, "The Titan supercomputer is an incredibly powerful Cray XK7 system combining innovative technologies from companies such as AMD and NVIDIA, surrounded by a tightly-integrated Cray hardware and software infrastructure.”
The $100 million Titan, by the US based Cray Inc., which seized the No.1 supercomputer ranking on the Top 500 list, will be 10 times more powerful than Cray’s last world-leading system, Jaguar, which had set a world record for computer speed and claimed the No.1 spot on the list of the fastest supercomputers in 2009.
The Titan system is a 200-cabinet Cray XK7 supercomputer with 18,688 compute nodes, each consisting of a 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor and an NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator.
Titan is located at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US and will be used to perform calculations for materials research, nuclear energy research and analysis of techniques which can make combustion engines more efficient. Cray had last year announced that it had bagged the contract to upgrade the Jaguar to Titan.
Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray, said, "The Titan supercomputer is an incredibly powerful Cray XK7 system combining innovative technologies from companies such as AMD and NVIDIA, surrounded by a tightly-integrated Cray hardware and software infrastructure.”
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