
Washington: New supercomputer Titan can process
more than 20,000 trillion calculations, or 20 petaflops, in a mere blink
by employing a series of graphic processing units first created for
computer gaming.
Launched by the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Titan will be 10 times as
powerful as ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, overcoming power
and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of
high-performance computers.
Using
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