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Titan Tops Top500 Supercomputing List

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 12, 2012 @07:35AM from the top-of-the-heap dept.

miller60 writes "The new Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers is out, and the new champion is Titan, the new and improved system that previously ruled the Top500 as Jaguar. Oak Ridge Labs' Titan knocked Livermore Labs' Sequoia system out of the top spot, with a Linpack benchmark of more than 17 petaflops. Check out the full list, or an illustrated guide to the top 10."

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I'm looking forward to the.. by mrbluze · 2012-11-12 07:38 · Score: 4, Funny

2013 Calendar full of naked supercomputers displaying their petaflops!

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Redudundant expression by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-12 07:49 · Score: 4, Informative

Sorry to be pedantic, but "petaflops a second" is redundant -- FLOPS means "floating-point operations per second."
That's some accelleration... by eth1 · 2012-11-12 07:50 · Score: 4, Funny

more than 17 petaflops a second.
Wait... 17 petaflop per second per second?! How long can it keep that up?
Re:Obligatory by cashman73 · 2012-11-12 10:16 · Score: 4, Informative

This is significant, because if you look at the list, Titan only has about 500,000 cores, versus 1.5 million cores on Sequoia. The overall increase in peta-FLOPS isn't that much, but the fact that Titan did this with only about 1/3 the cores as Sequoia IS significant.