The 10 most powerful supercomputers | World Economic Forum
Jul 31, 2015 · The Titan computer is a Cray XK7 system used by the United States Department of Energy at their Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The former top-ranked Jaguar supercomputer was upgraded in 2012 to become the then most powerful computer (until the Tianhe machine overtook it). The system performs at 17.59 Pflop/s using 261,632 NVIDIA K20x cores. 3.
These are the world’s top 10 fastest supercomputers
Jun 21, 2022 · 7. Perlmutter is another top 10 entry based on HPE technology. 8. Selene is a supercomputer currently running at AI multinational NVIDIA in the US. 9. Tianhe-2A is a system developed by China’s National University of Defence Technology and installed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou. 10.
Where is the world's most powerful computer?
Jun 25, 2016 · Twice as fast and three times as efficient as its predecessor, China’s Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer has officially become the most powerful computer in the world. Capable of processing speeds of 93 petaflops, the system can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second. Tianhe-2, the previous leader of the TOP500 list of the world ...
Which is the most powerful computer in the world? | World …
Jan 5, 2021 · The Japanese supercomputer, Fugaku, is the world's most powerful. In June, Japanese supercomputer Fugaku zipped past all competitors to claim the top spot in the twice-annual ranking of the world's most powerful computational machines released by research project Top500. Fugaku, which was developed by Fujitsu in cooperation with the federal ...
What are supercomputers and why are they important
Jan 19, 2023 · Justin Hotard: Supercomputers are the largest and most powerful computers in the world. These computers leverage a memory block along with multiple central processing units grouped into ‘compute nodes’ – sometimes tens of thousands of nodes. Imagine if you had not one laptop, but 50,000 laptops all connected together, running one piece of ...
How the world's top scientific minds could tackle global crises …
Jul 13, 2020 · During the pandemic, the COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium made the world’s most powerful computers available for free to researchers trying to fight COVID-19. COVID-19 showed the power of global …
The current state of AI, according to Stanford's AI Index | World ...
Apr 26, 2024 · While overall AI private investment decreased in 2023, funding for generative AI sharply increased. The sector attracted $25.2 billion last year, nearly nine times the investment of 2022 and about 30 times the amount in 2019. Generative AI accounted for over a quarter of all AI-related private investment in 2023.
How the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 will impact the …
Jun 25, 2024 · Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024: AI-powered scientific discovery and elastocalorics are among the 10 listed technologies. The World Economic Forum's Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 report lists this year's most impactful emerging technologies. The list includes ways artificial intelligence is accelerating scientific research with a ...
These are the world's leading science and technology hotspots
Oct 16, 2023 · 12: China: China’s R&D spend is the second largest in the world, behind the US, and its research investment grew by 9.8% in the latest rankings. 13: Japan: Home to the world's largest science and technology cluster based in Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan is a top 3 Asian nation for filing patents.
10 most respected professions in the world - The World Economic …
Jan 15, 2019 · Best & most respected professions in the world. Doctors topped the global list of most respected professions, followed by lawyers and then engineers. Head teachers also met with approval, but there was less respect for those further down the pedagogical ladder – secondary and primary school teachers lagged behind police officers, nurses ...