Titan towers over 'Top 500' supercomputer list
Summary: The 40th edition of the Top500 supercomputers has named the newly installed Titan, a Cray XK7 system that achieved 17.59 Petaflop/s, as the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory officially turned on the switch for its new supercomputer, Titan, just in time to claim the title of "World's Fastest Supercomputer" by Top500. This marks the 20th year for Tip500 and its 40th list.
Titan is a Cray XK7 system that hit 17.59 Petaflop/s (quadrillions
of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark. It features 560,640 processors, including 261,632 Nvidia K20x accelerator cores.
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It looks like a row of soda machines
Moore's Law for Supercomputer Power ~2x per Year