Oak Ridge National Labs, IBM, and Nvidia birth Summit supercomputer
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Oak Ridge National Laboratories has a new supercomputer built with bleeding-edge silicon from IBM and Nvidia. The lab and the system's maker claim the machine is the fastest HPC installation in the world. Summit is made of 4608 compute nodes, each built around two IBM Power9 CPUs and six Nvidia Tesla V100 accelerators. ORNL says this combination of gear can deliver a theoretical 200 petaflops (PF) of double-precision floating point arithmetic and over 3 exaflops (EF) of mixed-precision work for AI and deep-learning applications. IBM says the Summit gestalt is over five times more powerful than its predecessor, Titan, and more than a million times faster than the average laptop PC.
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