News tagged ‘supercomputing’
Thursday, 21 Mar 2013
Piz Daint Supercomputer to be Upgraded with NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPUs
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is upgrading its Piz Daint supercomputer with NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPUs, with the assistance of Cray, the supercomputer company. After its upgrade, Piz Daint will be the first petascale supercomputer in Switzerland.
Tuesday, 30 Oct 2012
Titan Debuts with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, Boasting Peak Performance of 20 Petaflops
Titan, touted as the world's first open-source supercomputer, made its debut at the Oak Ridge Labs in the United States. Titan is 20 times faster than Jaguar, its predecessor, as the former is capable of a peak performance of 20 petaflops - 20 million billion floating-point operations per second.
