6THE INNOVATORS CREATING NEXT-GEN LEADERSORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY SUPERCOMPUTER TEAMOral Roberts University is home to a new supercomputer of huge proportions. The machine, named Titan, is providing ORU students across numerous fields of study the opportunity to collaborate on projects with the aid of its speedy processing power. The $850,000 computer has a myriad of applications, including weather forecasting and bioinformatic analysis, and Titan contains more than 1,300 high-performance computing cores and has the capacity of 45 teraflops, allowing it to perform 45 trillion calculations per second. The machine requires an air-conditioning function because it can heat the room in which it's housed by 10 degrees in a matter of minutes.Dr. Stephen Wheat, professor of computer science at ORU has been awarded for his exemplary work in bringing Titan to Oral Roberts University. An ORU alum, Dr. Wheat is a highly experienced thinker who spent decades working in high-performance computing in just about every sphere imaginable around the world, from industry to academia to government consultations in the Departments of Defense and Energy. He joined the ORU faculty in January of 2018.Dr. Wheat says, "I've been involved in high-performance computing or supercomputing, first in the oil domain and then in the area of telephony and eventually into U.S. defense in the area of underwater warfare. From there I supported the Department of Energy with the nuclear weapons program before going to the national laboratory until I left the lab environment to spend 20 years at Intel, where I focused mostly on high-performance computing, rising in the ranks to become Innovative Leaders
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