US has World's Fastest Supercomputer!

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US has World's Fastest Supercomputer!

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Nov 12, 2012: A new U.S. supercomputer named "Titan" is the world's fastest supercomputer.
Clocked at 17.59 petaflops per second (quadrillions of calculations per second) the $100-million Titan seized the No. 1 supercomputer ranking on the Top500 List. The supercomputer is a Cray XK7 system based at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The top five supercomputers in the world are:
  • 1) Titan Cray XK47 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (17.59 petaflops/s)
    2) Sequoia BlueGene/Q at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (16.33 petaflops/s)
    3) Fujitsu's K computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan (10.51 petaflops/s)
    4) The Mira BlueGene/Q computer at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. (8.16 petaflops/s)
    5) The JUQUEEN BlueGene/Q computer at the Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany. (4.14 petaflops/s)
See the article 17.59 PFLOPS: AMD Opteron, Nvidia Tesla K20X Power World's Fastest SuperComputer