These are the world’s top 10 fastest supercomputers
Jun 21, 2022 · The US has retaken the top spot in the race to build the world’s fastest supercomputer. 'Frontier' is capable of more than a billion, billion operations a second, making it the first exascale supercomputer. Supercomputers have been used to discover more about diseases including COVID-19 and cancer.
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Jan 19, 2023 · Agenda: What is a supercomputer? Justin Hotard : Supercomputers are the largest and most powerful computers in the world. These computers leverage a memory block along with multiple central processing units grouped into ‘compute nodes’ – sometimes tens of …
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Jun 13, 2018 · Summit is truly a remarkable piece of engineering. Located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Summit holds the world record of 200 quadrillion calculations per second — that’s about 100 million times more than a typical computer. It is now, officially, the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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Jul 31, 2015 · The Titan computer is a Cray XK7 system used by the United States Department of Energy at their Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The former top-ranked Jaguar supercomputer was upgraded in 2012 to become the then most powerful computer (until the Tianhe machine overtook it). The system performs at 17.59 Pflop/s using 261,632 NVIDIA K20x cores. 3.
Inside the race to build the fastest ever supercomputer
When China unveiled the Sunway TaihuLight in June 2016, it became the fastest supercomputer in the world. It easily surpassed the previous record holder, Tianhe-2. It’s almost three times as fast. But now, the title it has held for less than a year is under threat, with the Japanese planning to build something even faster.
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Feb 4, 2022 · In 2008, IBM’s Roadrunner was the first to break the one petaflop barrier — meaning it could process one quadrillion operations per second. According to one study, the Fugaku supercomputer, based in the RIKEN Centre for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, is the world’s fastest machine. It is capable of processing 442 petaflops per second.
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What is ‘sovereign AI’ and why is it so appealing?
Nov 13, 2024 · In Sweden, a supercomputer was recently revamped in part to make that country more attractive to top AI researchers. The UAE has developed its own generative AI model (“Falcon”), and India earmarked $1.2 billion for an effort that includes an AI supercomputer outfitted with tens of thousands of chips.
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Jul 13, 2020 · Researchers at British AI startup PostEra used a different supercomputer to build a crowdsourcing platform for scientists worldwide to submit drug designs. The team received more than 5,000 submissions and managed to process them within just a few days – something they wouldn’t have been able to do without the Consortium.
Why India is ready to become a supercomputer power
Sep 23, 2019 · On August 14 2017, the SpaceX CRS-12 rocket was launched from Kennedy Space Center to send Dragon Spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab. Aboard the Dragon was a HPE supercomputer, called the Spaceborne, which is part of a year-long experiment conducted by HPE and NASA to run a supercomputer system in space.