How fast is it? Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer is so fast it flies at 17.59 petaflops per second through the ether space of electronic wizardry. In lay terms, that’s just over 17 ...
SK Telecom (SKT) has doubled the performance of its Titan supercomputer in South Korea. The capacity of Titan, which acts as the brain for SKT’s artificial intelligence model Aidat, has expanded to ...
It’s hard to wrap your brain around something this fast: a supercomputer that can manage 20 petaflops, or more than 20,000 trillion (that’s 20 quadrillion) floating point calculations per second. By ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Cadence today announced the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer featuring NVIDIA Blackwell systems, for AI-basted simulation for engineering and drug design workloads. The ...
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What Is a Supercomputer?

When you think of a supercomputer, what do you see in your mind's eye? A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC? A sinister emergent ...
Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...
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