Selected Beauties: November 2012

Nov 18, 2012

TITAN 2012 SuperComputer

The OLCF is home to Titan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science with a theoretical peak performance exceeding 20 petaflops (quadrillion calculations per second). That kind of computational capability—almost unimaginable—is on par with each of the world’s 7 billion people being able to carry out 3 million calculations per second. Image courtesy Oak Ridge National Laboratory

**Titan (supercomputer)**

Active	Became operational October 29, 2012
Sponsors	US DOE and NOAA (<10 td="td">
Operators	Cray Inc.
Location	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Architecture	18,688 AMD Opteron 6274 16-core CPUs 18,688 Nvidia Tesla K20 GPUs Cray Linux Environment
Power	8.2 MW
Space	404 sqm (4352 sq ft)
Memory	710 TB (598 TB CPU and 112 TB GPU)
Storage	10 PB, 240 GB/s IO
Speed	17.59 petaFLOPS
Cost	US$97 million
Ranking	TOP500: 1, November 12, 2012
Purpose	Scientific research
Legacy	First GPU based supercomputer to perform over 10 petaFLOPS
Web site	http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/titan/