September 3, 2014 – For students learning about multicore computers like Titan, the second-most powerful computer in the world, Tiny Titan can make the task a bit more manageable. The sub-$1,000 classroom computer can help middle and high school students explore the fundamental concepts of parallel computing, which is the key to Titan and its 299,008 cores. Working together, these cores can perform 27,000 trillion calculations per second (27 petaflops), allowing it to tackle some of today’s biggest computational challenges. Tiny Titan, which has nine processors, is equipped with an Xbox controller that allows students to interact with a particle-based fluid simulation to understand how multiple computers collaborate on a scientific problem. The tabletop-sized Tiny Titan will be showcased Sept. 16 in Washington, D.C., at the Advanced Science and Engineering through High-Performance Computing National Lab Day.
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