It has recently come to light that the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has deployed the "Perlmutter" supercomputer. The supercomputer will help assemble the largest 3D map of the visible universe to date in one of its projects.

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The details of the Perlmutter supercomputer have been published in a blog post by NVIDIA. The blog states that over two dozen applications are getting ready to be among the first to ride the 6,159 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Perlmutter. Its being lauded as the worlds fastest AI supercomputer and will deliver nearly four exaflops of AI performance for more than 7,000 researchers.

Talking about the 3D map of the universe, the Perlmutter supercomputer will process data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is a kind of cosmic camera that can capture around 5,000 galaxies in a single exposure.

Moreover, preparing a years worth of data for publication can take weeks or months on other systems, however, the Perlmutter supercomputer can get it done within just a few days. And this is just one of the many advanced projects that will run on this supercomputer.

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In the past, it was impossible to do fully atomistic simulations of big systems like battery interfaces, but now scientists plan to use Perlmutter to do just that, said Brandon Cook, an applications performance specialist at NERSC whos helping researchers launch such projects. Apart from these projects, Perlmutters high computing power will also be used in a slew of other fields including materials science, quantum physics, climate projections, biological research and more.

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Worlds Fastest AI Supercomputer Perlmutter Will Help Create Largest-Ever 3D Map Of The Universe! - Mashable India