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.

Why the world’s biggest supercomputer will use graphics chips (video)

October 14, 2011 9:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Steve Scott, chief technology officer for Tesla graphics chip products at Nvidia, was feeling pretty good this week after the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced it will build the world’s fastest supercomputer using 18,000 high-end graphics chips from Nvidia.

The …

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 …