The Titan supercomputer uses GPUs from Nvidia to speed up the machine and improve energy consumption.
(Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Predictions that Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer had become the most powerful machine in the world have turned out to be right.
The machine, powered by Nvidia graphics processors and Advanced Micro Devices computer chips, stole the No. 1 spot on the Top500's list from another U.S. machine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sequoia.
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Sequoia, which uses processors from IBM, became the top computer in June with a performance of 16.32 petaflops a second. Ti... [Read more]
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