World Economic Forum sur Twitter : "The 10 most powerful supercomputers #tech... The 10 most powerful supercomputers. For the first time, a supercomputer based in the Middle East has appeared in the top 10 of TOP500’s most powerful supercomputers list, published earlier this month. According to the creators of the list, the rate of growth in global computing power is slowing down. Relatively few supercomputers have been switched on in the last few years, in comparison with a decade ago.
There is a higher number of older supercomputers in the list than ever before, with nine systems in the top 10 installed before 2012. The total combined performance of the top 500 computers has grown to 363 Pflop/s (a petaflop is the ability of a computer to do one quadrillion floating point operations per second) compared with 309 Pflop/s six months ago and 274 Pflop/s a year ago. This increase demonstrates a significant slowdown in growth, compared to the previous long-term trend. 1. 2. The Titan computer is a Cray XK7 system used by the United States Department of Energy at their Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 3. 4.
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