How This Supercomputer Will Use A.I. to Map Dark Energy
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How This Supercomputer Will Use A.I. to Map Dark Energy:
The Wall Street Journal reports that the new Perlmutter supercomputer, recently installed at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Berkeley, California, will begin working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey project this summer. The project aims to learn more about dark energy, a hypothesized type of energy that accounts for a whopping 68% of the universe. To do this, the DESI instrument at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona will observe the night sky with 5,000 spectroscopic "eyes" which will record the light from 35 million galaxies.
To analyze all of that data, researchers will use the Perlmutter supercomputer. Named after Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, the computer is a significant upgrade over the lab's previous supercomputer, Cori, and is predicted to reach 100 petaFLOPS of processing power.
[...] DESI is expected to begin its five-year survey later this year.
It will be interesting to see how far along the installation is when the new Top500 supercomputer list comes out in a couple weeks.
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