El Capitan 1.5 Exaflop Supercomputer Will Arrive Late in 2022
El Capitan 1.5 Exaflop Supercomputer Will Arrive Late in 2022
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IBM Built Three of the Top 11 Supercomputers in the World Today
IBM is the only vendor to have multiple systems in the Top 10 of the semi-annual Top500 and Green500 supercomputer lists. This includes the US Dept of Energy’s Summit and Sierra supercomputers, the overall number one and number two most powerful supercomputers in the world, along with the Lassen Supercomputer built for Lawrence Livermore National …
Argonne’s Aurora System and the Road to Exascale Computing
Next-generation supercomputing capability promises major discoveries, scientific advancements, and new applications in research By Rob Johnson “Exascale systems are the fastest computers humans have ever built. Because of that, we will soon attack extremely complex problems not possible before,” said Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for computing, environment and life sciences at Argonne National Laboratory …
Exaflop Supercomputer Race
The US Department of Energy is paying $500 million for the Aurora exaflop supercomputer to be built by Intel and Cray in 2021. Aurora will perform regular supercomputer research and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. There will be extreme-scale cosmological simulations, discovering new approaches for drug response prediction and discovery of materials for the creation of …
Details of China’s Three Prototypes of Exaflop Supercomputer Architectures
China is building three prototypes for exaflop supercomputers. Depei Qian gave a talk at SC18 is now available. China is building three prototypes with about 2 to 4 Petaflops of performance. The three systems are by Sugon, Tianhe and Sunway. The systems have upgraded processors, interconnects and cooling. China is upgrading its national high performance …
Japan’s Post-K Supercomputer Will Have Exaflop Peak Performance
Japan’s Post-K supercomputer will have peak performance that is 100 times the performance of the 10.5 petaflop performance of the K supercomputer. The K supercomputer was completed in 2011. the post-K should be publicly operating in 2021. Am almost there from the airport but first my Uber will have to cut through downtown to avoid …
The Supercomputer Race After ExaFlops is Super Cool
The first Exaflop supercomputers are just scaling up with energy efficient modifications the technologies that have enabled the 100-200 petaFlop supercomputers. Super Cool Technologies Beyond the Exaflop Supercomputer DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) has started making petaflop supercomputers that are much more energy efficient by switching to dielectric liquids for cooling. They are cutting energy usage and …
China has the most top 500 supercomputers but US has the most supercomputer power
The share of TOP500 installations in China continues to rise, with the country now claiming 227 systems (45 percent of the total). The number of supercomputers that call the US home continues to decline, reaching an all-time low of 109 (22 percent of the total). However, systems in the US are, on average, more powerful, …
One million core processors in neuromorphic supercomputer
A neuromorphic supercomputer now has one-million processor cores. The Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker) machine can perform 200 trillion actions per second. Each chip has 100 million parts. The goal is to continue to scale up by 1000 times and simulate one billion biological neurons in real time. A mouse brain has about 100 million …
Cray Shasta supercomputer in 2020 with about 100 petaflops
Cray is building new Shasta Supercomputers. The first will be built for $146 million at Berkeley National Labs. It will use AMD Epyc processor and the next-generation Einstein Nvidia Tesla GPU accelerator. The “Perlmutter” NERSC-9 supercomputer will be installed in late 2020. Cray has built a new interconnect, called “Slingshot”. The current Cori NERSC-8 machine …
US now has first and third most powerful supercomputers
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) unveiled Sierra the world’s third fastest supercomputer. Sierra has a peak performance of 125 petaFLOPS — 125 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. Early indications using existing codes and benchmark tests are promising, demonstrating as predicted that Sierra can perform most required calculations far more efficiently in terms of cost and …