Energy Department kicks off its giant Titan supercomputer with thousands of Nvidia and AMD chips

October 29, 2012 12:01 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Department of Energy completes work on Titan supercomputer with Nvidia's graphics chips and AMD microprocessors.

Oak Ridge National Labs uses AMD and Nvidia chips for world’s biggest supercomputer

October 11, 2011 4:02 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory plans to create what could become the world’s most powerful supercomputer based on a Cray supercomputer with 18,000 microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices and an equal number of Nvidia graphics chips.

The supercomputer will pave …