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)