Charting software running slowly?
Scans taking forever?
The Economist reports on the world’s new fastest supercomputer, Titan.
Quite an interesting story – much use of GPUs instead of CPUs …
Titan has an unusual design, too. … Titan derives the majority of its oomph—more than 90%—from technology originally developed for the video-game industry. Half of its 37,376 processors are ordinary CPUs. But the other half are graphics processing units, or GPUs.