‘Titan’, el ordenador más rápido del mundo

Titan ', a U.S. computer company Cray located in Oak Ridge LaboratorioNacional U.S. government, holds the title of being the fastest in the world , surpassing other IBM device found in other U.S. research center. The ranking published by researchers from the United States and Germany argues that 'Titan', XK7 Cray system installed at Oak Ridge in Tennessee, reached 17.59 petaflops, equivalent to four thousand trillion calculations per second. 'Titan', which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, is used for research on energy, climate change and efficient engines, among other topics. This supercomputer moved into second place in the 'Sequoia' of IBM, located in Lawrence Liver National Laboratory in California that only reached 16.32 petaflops. 'Top five' Rounding out the 'top five' are the computer 'K' of Fujitsu, the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, 'Look', a BlueGene / Q by IBM at the Argonne National Laboratory Chicago and other system BlueGene / Q of IBM called 'Juqueen' in the research center Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. Researchers have noted that 251 of the fastest systems in the world are in the U.S., 105 in Europe and 123 in Asia, with 72 of them in China. The company provided Intel processors for 76% of the systems, AMD for 12% and 10.6% for the IMB. The 'Top 500' of computers has been conducted by the University of Mannheim, Germany, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee.

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