Tag Archives : Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nvidia presents the fastest supercomputer in the world
The chip maker Nvidia announced that a new supercomputer built in China is the world’s fastest and uses seven thousand of its graphics processing units (GPUs).
The supercomputer, built by the National University of Defence Technology and installed in the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, has power equivalent to 175,000 laptops, according [...]
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Jaguar XT5: The World’s fastest Computer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is owned by the Department of Energy in the US of A and they are in news because they house the superfast computer Jaguar XT5.
With a performance speed of 1.759 petaflops or quadrillions of calculations per second, it is the world’s fastest computer. The laboratory aims to use [...]
