TheOak Ridge National Laboratory has begun to install what could become the worlds most powerful supercomputer - Summit. <\/p>\n
The IBM-developed 10MW system will take six months or more to install, and will then be available toDepartment of Energy researchers and a few universities, before becominggenerally available to scientific users by January 2019. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Summit installation <\/p>\n
Source: ORNL <\/p>\n
Top500 estimates the supercomputer will enter its ranking list by next June, at which point it has a strong chance of beating out the current worlds most powerful supercomputer, TaihuLight, for the top spot. <\/p>\n
TaihuLight currently has apeak performance of 125.4 petaflops and a Linpack result of 93 petaflops.Summit, meanwhile, isexpected to be five to 10 times as powerful as ORNLs current top system, Titan. <\/p>\n
Titan is the fourth most powerful computer on Top500s list, with apeak performance of 27.1petaflops and a Linpack result of 17.6 petaflops. Summitwill be comprised of approximately 4,600 nodes, each with six7.5-teraflop Nvidia V100 GPUs and twoIBM Power9 CPUs, whichTop500 estimates will lead to an aggregate peak performance well over 200 petaflops. <\/p>\n
The Department of Energy awarded$325 million in late 2014 to build both Summit for ORNLand the slightly less powerful Sierra for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. <\/p>\n
Sierra wil be used by The National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure the safety, security and effectiveness of the nations nuclear deterrent without testing. <\/p>\n
After Summits launch, the next big US supercomputer for ORNL is likely to be an exascale machine - a target that the US, China and EU are all racing towards. <\/p>\n
In June, the DOE announced it would award$258 million in funding to AMD, Cray, HPE, IBM, Intel and Nvidia over three years as part of the new PathForward program, itself part of DOEs Exascale Computing Project (ECP). <\/p>\n
Continued US leadership in high performance computing is essential to our security, prosperity, and economic competitiveness as a nation, US Secretary Rick Perry said at the time. <\/p>\n
The Chinese government, meanwhile,is set to develop a prototype of an exascale computer by the end of this year. <\/p>\n
A complete computing system of the exascale supercomputer and its applications can only be expected in 2020, and will be 200 times more powerful than the countrys first petaflop computer Tianhe-1, recognized as the worlds fastest in 2010, Zhang Ting, application engineer at the Tianjin-based National Supercomputer Center,told state-publication Xinhuain June. <\/p>\n
The EU plans to build its own exascale prototype based on the ARM architecture,built by French IT giant Atos. <\/p>\n
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