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Titan, the world's fastest supercomputerTitan, the world's fastest supercomputer

(2:34) A massive machine in a massive room built to tackle science's most massive problems, has just come online. The Titan supercomputer was developed by Cray Inc. and is expected to perform 20 petaFLOPS, or 20 quadrillion calculations per second.

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Guest:  (182 days ago)
so, it does what?
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Guest: ,.6 (180 days ago)
Latest comment: Horoscopes.
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Guest: prake (181 days ago)
can it answer what came first? egg or chicken
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Guest: Leaty (180 days ago)
Don't need a supercomputer for that one. It was the egg. Birds (including chickens) evolved from egg laying dinosaurs.
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TheBob TheBob (182 days ago)
OK, it's expensive and uses lots of energy. Could we have an example of one of "the world's biggest problems" it will tackle?
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cengland0 cengland0 (181 days ago)
at 1:12, he said it makes pictures of what's going on in the universe. And, at 2:20 he said it's trying to predict what is going to happen in the future.
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