Secretary Chu announces that Titan, a new supercomputer located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the world’s most powerful according to the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Ten times more powerful than its predecessor, the Jaguar system, Titan will provide unprecedented power to accelerate scientific discoveries using technologies first developed for video game systems like Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. DOE now has five systems out of the fastest 20 in the world, with Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in second place; Mira at Argonne National Laboratory in fourth place; Cielo, located in Los Alamos, New Mexico and operated jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, ranked 18th, and Hopper at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ranked 19th.
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