Though mainland People's Republic of China nevertheless has to a greater extent than supercomputers on the Top 500 list, the USA takes the crown of "world's fastest supercomputer" from mainland People's Republic of China after IBM as well as the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) unveiled "Summit."
Summit is claimed to last to a greater extent than than twice equally powerful equally the electrical flow basis leader amongst a peak surgical physical care for of a whopping 200,000 trillion calculations per second—that's equally fast equally each 7.6 billion people of this planet doing 26.3 i M one thousand calculations per bit on a calculator.
Until instantly the world's virtually powerful supercomputer was China's Sunway TaihuLight amongst the processing ability of 93 petaflops (93,000 trillion calculations per second).
Since June 2012, the U.S. has non possessed the world's virtually powerful supercomputer, only if Summit performs equally claimed past times IBM, it volition last made direct to the move past times of the Top500 supercomputer listing which volition last published afterwards this month.
Housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) inwards Tennessee, Summit is developed past times IBM inwards collaboration amongst Nvidia, RedHat, as well as InfiniBand networking specialists Mellanox and toll $200 i M one thousand to build.
Summit consists of 4,608 compute servers, each of which has 2 IBM Power9 CPUs running at 3.1GHz amongst 22 processing cores running inwards parallel. That's over 200,000 CPU cores across all of Summit.
Each brace of Power9 chips is connected to vi Nvidia Tesla V100 graphics chips (GPUs). In total, the arrangement likewise features to a greater extent than than 10 petabytes of retentiveness (RAM).
The ORNL squad says Summit is the outset supercomputer made bespoke for run inwards artificial-intelligence (AI) applications, similar machine learning as well as neural networks.
"Summit's AI-optimized hardware likewise gives researchers an incredible platform for analyzing massive datasets as well as creating intelligent software to accelerate the footstep of discovery," Jeff Nichols, ORNL associate laboratory managing director for computing as well as computational sciences, said inwards today's announcement.However, the ORNL squad says Summit's initial uses volition include piece of employment on astrophysics, cancer research, fusion energy, as well as addiction treatment.
IBM is likewise edifice a smaller version of Summit called Sierra, which is scheduled to become online this twelvemonth at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Sierra is less powerful than Summit amongst alone iv V100 GPUs per node for maximum processing capacity of some 125 petaflops.
