ORNL launches new supercomputer

Published October 29, 2012 8:01am ET



OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — A new supercomputer is ready to go to work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Department of Energy facility announced Monday that its new Titan system can handle 20,000 trillion calculations a second, which in computing language is referred to as 20 petaflops. ORNL says that makes Titan 10 times more powerful than the laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer.

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