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Chinese supercomputer still No. 1, ORNL’s Titan No. 2

Posted at 9:00 am November 18, 2013
By John Huotari 2 Comments

Titan Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory stayed at No. 2 in a Top 500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers released Monday morning. (Photo courtesy of ORNL)

A Chinese supercomputer kept its top ranking, and Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory stayed at No. 2 in a Top 500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers released Monday morning.

The top two spots were unchanged from the semiannual rankings released five months ago in June, when Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, bumped Titan from the top spot. The ORNL supercomputer had been named No. 1 one year ago.

The rankings released Monday at the SC13 conference in Denver, Colo., said Tianhe-2 is capable of performing 33.86 petaflops. That’s 33.86 quadrillion calculations per second, on what is known as a Linpack benchmark test.

Titan is a Cray XK7 system that achieved 17.59 petaflops. Titan is one of the most energy-efficient systems on the list, consuming a total of 8.21 megawatts and delivering 2.143 gigaflops per watt, a press release said. [Read more…]

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UT professor, ORNL staff member to be honored for supercomputing accomplishments

Posted at 10:00 am October 10, 2013
By University of Tennessee Leave a Comment

Jack Dongarra

Jack Dongarra

KNOXVILLE—Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, is being honored for his leadership in high performance computing.

He will receive the Association for Computing Machinery-Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award on Nov. 19 in Denver at SC13, the International Conference on High Performance Computing.

Dongarra, who is also a distinguished research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is being recognized for designing and promoting standards for mathematical software used to solve numerical problems common to high-performance computing. His work has led to the development of major software libraries of algorithms and methods that boost performance and portability in high-performance computing environments. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories Tagged With: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture and the Computer Society, algorithms, Association for Computing Machinery, Center for Information Technology Research, College of Engineering, Computer Society, high-performance computing, Innovative Computing Laboratory, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, International Conference on High Performance Computing, Jack Dongarra, Ken Kennedy, Ken Kennedy Award, LAPACK, LINPACK, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Rice University, SC13, software, supercomputing, Top500, University of Tennessee, UT, Vint Cerf, Wayne Davis

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