Tuesday, June 21, 2016

US builds supercomputer with a performance of 200 peta flops – IDG.se

The Chinese have run for the Americans in both the number of supercomputers and sheer force. But the United States is already planning his revenge. In early 2018, a new facility to be completed at the Department of Energy with a performance of 200 peta flops.

The Chinese newcomer Sunway Taihulight, who named the world now most powerful supercomputer, is comparatively a measured performance of more than 93 petabytes. But even the theoretical maximum speed of scarce 125 petabytes is far below the new US plant.

It is IBM built the new supercomputer on government Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The plant will be equipped with IBM Power 9 processors and Nvidia graphics cards Volta, reports Computerworld.

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the cluster has around 3400 nodes with multiple power 9- and Volt-chip installed in each one. Each node also has a working over 512GB.

Energy Ministry is responsible for several of the most powerful supercomputers that US authorities use for research purposes. The premier, Titan, is also located at Oak Ridge and today is the world’s third fastest system with a measured performance of 17.6 peta flops. In the long term, it is to be completely replaced by the Summit.

The ministry has also ordered another two supercomputers 2018. Sierra, a 150-Teraflops system from IBM, and Aurora built by Intel and Cray and get a performance around 180 teraflops.

We’ll see if China has any answer, or else the United States can be on your way to regain first place in both the performance and the number of supercomputers on the top 500 list.

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