Oak Ridge National Lab Feeds Nvidia Tesla Chips to Jaguar Supercomputer, Turns it into a Titan
"All areas of science can benefit from this substantial increase in computing power, opening the doors for new discoveries that so far have been out of reach," said Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "Titan will be used for a variety of important research projects, including the development of more commercially viable biofuels, cleaner burning engines, safer nuclear energy, and more efficient solar power."
The upgraded Titan will rank as the fastest supercomputer in the world, supplanting Japan's 8.2 petaflop K machine as the fastest around. In addition to being two times as fast, Titan will also be three times more energy efficient than the K computer, Nvidia says.