The US energy department
will spend $325 million in collaboration with IBM, Nvidia and
Mellanox to create the world's 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, it's 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 China's 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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