17-Petaflop Titan Supercomputer

[Deathcrow]

http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...n-supercomputer-now-officially-worlds-fastest

Go USA!

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan is the worlds fastest supercomputer. It has officially recorded speeds of 17.59 petaflops which is quadrillions of calculations per second. Also, its entire computing apparatus fits into the same 200 server cabinets as the 2.3 petaflop Jaguar which it replaced. It uses hybrid processing which means it uses GPUs to augment the central processing units. They did this because GPUs are better than CPUs when it comes to operations that involve parallel kinds of computing.

"By coupling NVIDIA Tesla GPUs with 16-core AMD CPUs, the engineers at Cray that built Titan for ORNL were able to increase computing performance by a factor several times greater than its increase in energy consumption (or size)."

I thought this was pretty cool so decided to share it with y'all.

How fast do you think supercomputers will be 10 years from now?

 

[eXero]

Probably 2x the capacity, but 1/2 as big.

 

[Deathcrow]

Here is the difference between the last 10 years. Notice how they switched from measuring in GFlops/s to TFlops/s.

November 2002:

November 2012:

 

[Adam]

Probably 2x the capacity, but 1/2 as big.

According to Moore's law it should be 5-6x faster.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

 

[eXero]

I mean if you bring science into it, yes 5-6x faster. But realistically, I think things are going to decline, specifically in the US.

 

[Deathcrow]

Well it seems the fastest supercomputer right now is 490 times faster than the fastest supercomputer 10 years ago.

35.86 TFlops/s -> 17,590 TFlops/s

EDIT:

Found this graph.

Spoiler

 

[Haywire]

My computer is still faster ... lol

 

[tu y tu mama]

Maybe later in many years we will all have one of those in our houses. Who knows, phones might even get that fast some day.

Spoiler

If humans haven't destroyed the Earth.

 

[Gogetaa]

the possibilities are endless!
although i think this will be used in the commercial sector way before its released to us. although with today's demands i don't even think the biggest of corporations need that kind of power to aid their processes.