Titan debuts for open scientific research

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is home to Titan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science with a theoretical peak performance exceeding 20 petaflops (quadrillion calculations per second). That kind of computational capability is on par with each of the world’s 7 billion people being able to carry out 3 million calculations per second. The machine will be used for scientific research, like examining climate change.