Titan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science with a
theoretical peak performance of over 20 quadrillion calculations per
second is powered by Nvidia technology.
Titan is 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. About 90 percent, comes from 18,688 NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU accelerators.
Its development began three years ago with Oak Ridge's decision to
upgrade "Jaguar", the previous open science system which was
world No. 1 most powerful supercomputer.
Researchers have the need to use even faster supercomputers to accelerate the pace of
discovery and innovation across a range of scientific fields of inquiry
-- from developing more efficient engines and higher capacity, lighter
weight batteries, to studying climate change and finding cures for
disease.
So this means that now researchers from academia, government
laboratories, and a broad range of industries can use Titan system to
model physical and biological phenomena and seek breakthroughs faster
than possible by experimentation alone.
It is an astonishing technological innovation which will play a serious role in scientific and technological advancement for the next years !
The Titan system is one step on the path to exascale computing, which targets building a 1,000 petaflops supercomputer.
Imagine what kind of power this can be and what outcome could be earned from it !
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