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Department of Energy unleashes the 'Titan' supercomputer

article published on 30 October, 2012

The U.S. DOE has activated the world's most powerful supercomputer, dubbed the 'Titan.' Speaking from their Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) facility, the agency said the supercomputer was live, with the ability to calculate at 20 petaflops (FLOPS stands for "Floating Point operations per Second", so 20 PFLOP/s == 20 quadrillion floating point operations per second, or 20,000,000,000,000,000 ... [ read the full article ]

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Morreale
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_ 		30. October 2012 @ 21:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Everyone always hatin' on AMD...
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Mysttic
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_ 		30. October 2012 @ 22:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Still, what a beast....
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Dela
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_ 		30. October 2012 @ 23:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mysttic:
 Still, what a beast....

Damn right what a beast! What's more remarkable to me though is how it will be detrhoned within maybe 12-18 months. We will hit Exaflop performance by 2019. The future is... crazy? uncertain? mysterious? all of the above?
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doowop72
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_ 		31. October 2012 @ 15:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Get Matthew Broderick to play a game of "Global ThermoNuclear War" with it.... ha.
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DDR4life
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_ 		31. October 2012 @ 21:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by doowop72:
 Get Matthew Broderick to play a game of "Global ThermoNuclear War" with it.... ha.
Hahaha! I was going to say that.

@justme2012
I lol'd
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BradEL
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_ 		1. November 2012 @ 12:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ALWAYS been an AMD (Athalon) devotee!!! Go AMD!!!
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BradEL
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_ 		1. November 2012 @ 13:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Morreale:
 Everyone always hatin on AMD...
Ive always bought AMD, for friends, family, and especially ME!!!
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omendata
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_ 		4. November 2012 @ 00:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Go AMD go...

Now if they used some Liquid Nitrogen and did a bit of overclocking hmmm...
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