At the time of writing, the fastest supercomputer in the world is capable of calculating 442 petaflops. However, the official goal of various high-performance computing (HPC) centers is to achieve more than twice that: 1 exaflop, or 1018 floating-point operations per second.
If today?s most efficient supercomputer, the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, would be scaled in size to deliver 1 exaflop of performance, it would consume 38 megawatts of power. That is about the average power consumption of six small towns with 10,000 citizens each.
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