What is the Titan supercomputer used for?
What is the Titan supercomputer used for?
Scientific research
Titan (supercomputer)
| Titan in 2013 | |
|---|---|
| Active | Became operational October 29, 2012; decommissioned August 2, 2019 |
| Purpose | Scientific research |
| Legacy | Ranked 1 on TOP500 when built. First GPU based supercomputer to perform over 10 petaFLOPS |
| Web site | www.olcf.ornl.gov/titan/ |
How much does the Titan supercomputer cost?
The supercomputer cost $100 million and its super electric bill is expected to cost about $9 million per year. Titan is one of the largest computers in the world, not just in crunching processing power, but also in physical size—“Titan is about the same size as a basketball court,” said Bland.
Are supercomputers loud?
The sound of 20 quadrillion calculations happening every second is dangerously loud. Anyone spending more than 15 minutes in the same room with the Titan supercomputer must wear earplugs or risk permanent hearing damage.
Where is the Titan supercomputer?
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This morning the “TOP500” list of the world’s fastest supercomputers named Titan, a new supercomputer located at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the most powerful in the world.
Can a supercomputer mine Bitcoin?
The bitcoin network hashrate estimate on bitcoinwatch.com passed 1 exaFLOPS (1,000 petaFLOPS) which is over 8 times the combined speed of the top 500 supercomputers. Bitcoin network does this by using ASICs. Therefore a supercomputer cannot mine al the bitcoins in matter of hours.
Can a supercomputer play games?
GeForce NOW is a service where you launch a game on their supercomputers and then it streams the output to your pc. You can play nearly every game at max settings 1080p 60 fps (that’s the limit). I found the max performance per user is equivalent to around the performance of two RTX 2080 tis.
How many FLOPS is the human brain?
A human brain’s probable processing power is around 100 teraflops, roughly 100 trillion calculations per second, according to Hans Morvec, principal research scientist at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
How cold is a supercomputer room?
To make sure the CPUs can run efficiently, they must be kept under 30 degrees Celsius, but without cooling, their temperature would rise above 100 C in a matter of seconds. To prevent this, the supercomputer is equipped with a large water-based liquid cooling unit.
Why are supercomputers cold?
Because of its efficiency, the immersion cooling fluid allows a tighter packing of components, reducing the amount of floor space required. It enables 100 kilowatts or more of computing power per square meter, compared to just 10 kilowatts in a typical air-cooled system.
How much is a NASA PC?
NASA’s system will cost about $50 million, somewhat of a bargain price because Intel Corp. and SGI, among other vendors, will be studying the system as part of a research agreement, a NASA spokesman said.
