The Oak Ridge’s supercomputer which is expected to perform 10 times more powerful than today’s fastest supercomputer used to purse research in energy and climate change, on getting towards it Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) announced plans for a new supercomputer that will use NVIDIA®’s next generation CUDA™ GPU architecture, codenamed “Fermi.
The architecture would use both graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvida and central processing units (CPUs); plan announced by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) that this super computer will come with Nvidia’s next-generation GPU architecture, codenamed “Fermi.”
The Fermi chip integrates three billion transistors, about three times the number of transistors in Nvidia’s most powerful graphics chip now on the market. In the future, the chip will also find its way into Nvidia’s GeForce product line for PCs, stated Oak Ridge and Nvidia’s in the announcement.
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