United States has World's Fastest Supercomputer in Summit
Summit
The United States has returned to the lead in machine computation with Summit. The immediate implication appears to be an inflection towards AI. Summit will also work on astrophysics, materials, biology, and data. It is ironic, but not accidental that AI is slowly accelerating while Western Rationality is decaying. I believe this is due to individual and class stratification or purge. If developing nations or individuals due not have access to accelerating technologies various forms of conflict are likely to emerge. At 200 petaflops the world still exists under Censorship and Sanitization of MOEC.
Morgan McCorkle, Communications
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 8, 2018: The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.
With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second or 200 petaflops, Summit will be eight times more powerful than ORNL's previous top ranked system, Titan. For certain scientific applications, Summit will also be capable of more than three billion billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops. Summit will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible.
"Today’s launch of the Summit supercomputer demonstrates the strength of American leadership in scientific innovation and technology development. It's going to have a profound impact in energy research, scientific discovery, economic competitiveness and national security," said Secretary of Energy Rick Perry. "I am truly excited by the potential of Summit, as it moves the nation one step closer to the goal of delivering an exascale supercomputing system by 2021. Summit will empower scientists to address a wide range of new challenges, accelerate discovery, spur innovation and above all, benefit the American people."
The IBM AC922 system consists of 4,608 compute servers, each containing two 22 core IBM Power9 processors and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 graphics processing unit accelerators, interconnected with dual rail Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand. Summit also possesses more than 10 petabytes of memory paired with fast, high bandwidth pathways for efficient data movement. The combination of cutting edge hardware and robust data subsystems marks an evolution of the hybrid CPUGPU architecture successfully pioneered by the 27 petaflops Titan in 2012.
https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-launches-summit-supercomputer
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