Wednesday, March 25, 2015
IBM Nvidia Team up To Build Worlds Fastest Supercomputer
The US energy department will spend $325 million in collaboration with IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox to create the worlds fastest supercomputers, Sierra and Summit by 2017.
According to some trusted sources, the supercomputer with two GPU acceleration will be composed of OpenPower chips by IBM, the latest graphic chip Volta, by Nvidia and the high speed network system by Mellanox to club everything together.
Summit is developed for civilian and scientific purpose at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, its more powerful compared to the other supercomputer and can deliver 150 to 300 peak petaflops.
On the other hand, Sierra is believed to deliver above 100 peak petaflops and its purpose is to serve in nuclear weapons simulations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Both the supercomputers will be the next champs crushing all the prevailing supercomputers. Titan by Oak Ridge holds the US record at 27 peak petaflops and Chinas Tianhe-2 holds the world at 55 peak petaflops.
IBM is also experimenting a new technique called "Data Centric" approach, using this technique the computing power can reside everywhere data is placed, and moreover it can minimize the motion date and energy consumption as well.
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US Secretary of Energy said in a statement that, "High-performance computing is an essential component of the science and technology portfolio required to maintain U.S. competitiveness and ensure our economic and national security."
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