The world's most powerful new supercomputer

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - America has just introduced the world's most powerful Titan supercomputer to date.

Titan has the size of a basketball court and consumes a huge amount of electricity that is enough to light a town. Supercomputers are capable of performing 20 million billion calculations per second.

ORNL said that Titan is 10 times stronger than the Jaguar of ORNL earlier and 20 trillion times more than normal computers.

Titan is also known as Cray XK7 with 18,688 buttons. Each button is integrated with an AMD 16-core 6274 Opteron processor and a Tesla K20 GPU graphics processor and 700 Terabyte memory.

New supercomputer (Photo: Gizmag)

'One of the biggest obstacles of supercomputers is energy consumption,' said Jeff Nichols, ORNL's vice president. 'Combining the GPU and CPU in the same system can consume less power while reducing carbon emissions. Titan will provide unprecedented rapid computing for energy science, climate change, materials and other areas to create leaps in science. '