T-I-T-A-N !! Record Breaker as the Fastest Super Computer

       Wow, what an awesome cool graphics !!! ....Actually this one is so cool as it looks because this one is the current fastest super computer in the world and the name is as u read in the above pic-  TITAN.
When our computers are used for opening FB, chatting with friends, programming a minor to major project these super computers are used to manage/process million instructions per second where it deals with a nation's security, defence  budget etc. More over these super powered stuffs open the way for efficient research works which includes the research projects from land to space...from ocean to mars..from chemical reaction to explosion.

                   Now, Oak Ridge National Laboratory can be proud of being a house owner of the Fastest Super Computer. Lab' TITAN super computer knocked out other competitors and made at the first position  in the latest list of world's 500 supercomputers. The machine has over a half million processors and over a quarter of a million NVIDIA K20x accelerator cores. It's speed is estimated as 17.59petaflops which can be  detailed as quadrillions of calculations per second.

SEQUOIA

           
     The member of the second slot in top ranker's list is also from U.S - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sequoia. Titan is declared as an open machine which means researchers in both public and private sector can use it to run experiments. While the second ranker is a secure machine, used exclusively to manage the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. It's speed is of 16.32 sustained petaflops. It's main use is to manage US' nuclear stockpile without resorting to nuclear testing, or put simply, more computational power, fewer explosions.

Sequoia will provide a more complete understanding of weapons performance, notably hydrodynamics and properties of materials at extreme pressures and temperatures. In particular, the system will enable suites of highly resolved uncertainty quantification calculations to support the effort to extend the life of aging weapons systems; what we call a life extension program (LEP)," said Bob Meisner, NNSA director of the ASC program. (June 18th 2012)