Titan

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Titan or OLCF-3 was a supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in a variety of science projects. Titan was an upgrade of Jaguar, a previous supercomputer at Oak Ridge, that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) in addition to conventional central processing units (CPUs).

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Image: OLCF at ORNL, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.