Titan - The World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) planned to upgrade its Supercomputer Jaguar (Cray XT5) into Titan (Cray XT5) which is expected to become the world's fastest Supercomputer crossing over the presently fastest supercomputer, the K computer in Japan. The leading Supercomputer manufacturer Cray who installed the very same Jaguar is upgrading it into Titan through a $96 million contract with ORNL.
By employing the AMD’s OPTERON processors and NVIDIA’s Tesla 20-series GPUs, Cray aimed to attain extremely high operating speed in Titan. Employing NVIDIA’s graphic processors to take care of non-graphic computing operations, Cray already announced that it has architecture capable of scaling to more than 50 petaflops. This 50 petaflops speed compared to a petaflop speed of Jaguar is eye-popping although the expected speed of Titan were around 10 – 20 petaflops. Titan with ‘299,008 cores and 600 terabytes of memory’ is expected to be completed in late 2012 and will be ready for users in early 2013.
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CRAY Supercomputer XK6
The projects like production of commercially viable biofuels and biomaterials from cellulose materials and development of new photocells with high energy conversion efficiency and so on were waiting out there for Titan to be getting done.
"All of these areas of science will benefit from Titan's enormous increase in computational power," said ORNL Director Thom Mason. "Titan will allow for significantly greater realism in models and simulations and the resulting scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations will provide the return on this national investment. Discoveries that take weeks even on a system as powerful as Jaguar might take days on Titan."
We have to wait until 2013 to see the world’s fastest Supercomputer, but who knows, things won’t be always going as we expected. May be there might be another Supercomputer faster than Titan could be rolled out by a Japanese company or some other folks way before we see the Titan as fastest Supercomputer.
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By employing the AMD’s OPTERON processors and NVIDIA’s Tesla 20-series GPUs, Cray aimed to attain extremely high operating speed in Titan. Employing NVIDIA’s graphic processors to take care of non-graphic computing operations, Cray already announced that it has architecture capable of scaling to more than 50 petaflops. This 50 petaflops speed compared to a petaflop speed of Jaguar is eye-popping although the expected speed of Titan were around 10 – 20 petaflops. Titan with ‘299,008 cores and 600 terabytes of memory’ is expected to be completed in late 2012 and will be ready for users in early 2013.
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CRAY Supercomputer XK6
The projects like production of commercially viable biofuels and biomaterials from cellulose materials and development of new photocells with high energy conversion efficiency and so on were waiting out there for Titan to be getting done.
"All of these areas of science will benefit from Titan's enormous increase in computational power," said ORNL Director Thom Mason. "Titan will allow for significantly greater realism in models and simulations and the resulting scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations will provide the return on this national investment. Discoveries that take weeks even on a system as powerful as Jaguar might take days on Titan."
We have to wait until 2013 to see the world’s fastest Supercomputer, but who knows, things won’t be always going as we expected. May be there might be another Supercomputer faster than Titan could be rolled out by a Japanese company or some other folks way before we see the Titan as fastest Supercomputer.
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