OLCF
Faces of Summit: NRE Team
When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) newest supercomputer, Summit, comes on line in 2018 at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the system is expected to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and one of the best machines for scientific computing and artificial intelligence applications.
At five to 10 times the computing power of OLCF’s current 27-petaflop Titan system, Summit’s leap in performance cannot be purchased out of the box. To meet specific performance, reliability, and efficiency requirements, OLCF staff collaborated with vendors IBM, NVIDIA, and Mellanox and CORAL partners Lawrence Livermore and Argonne National Laboratories to engineer Summit’s unique scientific computing environment, including customizations for software and hardware.
Known as nonrecurring engineering (NRE)—a one-time phase of R&D—this critical step in building Summit is steered for OLCF by Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Technology Integration (TechInt) Group leader, and Al Geist, OLCF Chief Technology Officer.
+ Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/02/27/faces-of-summit-building-a-b...
Faces of Summit: NRE Team
When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) newest supercomputer, Summit, comes on line in 2018 at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the system is expected to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and one of the best machines for scientific computing and artificial intelligence applications.
At five to 10 times the computing power of OLCF’s current 27-petaflop Titan system, Summit’s leap in performance cannot be purchased out of the box. To meet specific performance, reliability, and efficiency requirements, OLCF staff collaborated with vendors IBM, NVIDIA, and Mellanox and CORAL partners Lawrence Livermore and Argonne National Laboratories to engineer Summit’s unique scientific computing environment, including customizations for software and hardware.
Known as nonrecurring engineering (NRE)—a one-time phase of R&D—this critical step in building Summit is steered for OLCF by Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Technology Integration (TechInt) Group leader, and Al Geist, OLCF Chief Technology Officer.
+ Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/02/27/faces-of-summit-building-a-b...