"Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's top open science computer, is going live on Monday with an upgrade that will likely make it the fastest supercomputer on the planet. At 20 petaflops -- that's 20 quadrillion calculations each second."
"Titan replaced its predecessor's 224,256 central processing units (CPUs) with 299,008 faster CPUs made by AMD, along with 18,688 graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia. The GPUs serve as accelerators to the CPUs."
"Titan will help U.S. scientists pioneer research into climate change, biofuels, nuclear energy, new materials and other crucial fields..."
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1 replies"Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's top open science computer, is going live on Monday with an upgrade that will likely make it the fastest supercomputer on the planet. At 20 petaflops -- that's 20 quadrillion calculations each second."
"Titan replaced its predecessor's 224,256 central processing units (CPUs) with 299,008 faster CPUs made by AMD, along with 18,688 graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia. The GPUs serve as accelerators to the CPUs."
"Titan will help U.S. scientists pioneer research into climate change, biofuels, nuclear energy, new materials and other crucial fields..."
Here's the full article from CNN-Money.
My question is, though...will it run Photo Shop?
Seriously, this is quite a breakthrough in computing power.
--P