Titan Cray XK47, The world's fastest supercomputer so far.
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Titan, supercomputer at US government’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has become the world’s fastest computer.
According to Top 500 supercomputer ranking, the Cray XK7, Titan achieved a sustained computing capability of 17.5 petaflops - or 17.5 million billion mathematical calculations per second – on Linpack's benchmark scale.
The supercomputer cost $200 million and is powered by 18,688 Nvidia Tesla K20X GPUs and over 560,640 AMD processors.
According to Top 500 supercomputer ranking, the Cray XK7, Titan achieved a sustained computing capability of 17.5 petaflops - or 17.5 million billion mathematical calculations per second – on Linpack's benchmark scale.
The supercomputer cost $200 million and is powered by 18,688 Nvidia Tesla K20X GPUs and over 560,640 AMD processors.
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| Photograph courtesy Charles Brooks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Sources
National Geographic
Anandtech
