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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer on June 8, 2018.
With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second-or 200 petaflops, Summit will be eight times more powerful than ORNL’s previous top-ranked system, Titan. For certain scientific applications, Summits will also be capable of more than three billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops. Summit will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible.
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Daniela Ushizima (NERSC), Lev Manovich, and Jeremy Douglass in front of one of NERSC supercomputers.
"The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the flagship scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy. As one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research, NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC is located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California." (source: www.nersc.gov/about/).
In the Fall 2009, we assembled a data set containing 1,074,790 unique manga pages. We then used our custom software system running on a supercomputer at at (NERSC) to analyze visual features of these pages (funded by Humanities High Performance Award from NEH Digital Humanities Office.) Currently we are working on a series of articles which discuss our methods and discoveries - as well as the larger theoretical questions around quantitative analysis of large sets of cultural visual data.
Last week we visited Oakland Scientific Facility (part of NERSC) to present our research and discuss strategies for further collaboration. The visit was organized by Dr. Daniela Ushizima. Daniela who is a member of Analytics/Visualization and Math groups in Computation Research at the Lauwrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was responsible for getting our project going at NERSC which was no small task. Thank you, Daniela!
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks adds her signature to a door, during a visit to Frontier, the world's fastest supercomputer, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., Aug. 17, 2022. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
Information technology specialist Mike Hickman of Auburn’s Office of Information Technology and technician Rob Russell of Lenovo help install the university’s new $1 million supercomputer, which enhance research across campus, from microscopic gene sequencing to huge engineering tasks.
"The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history. The Cray-1's architect was Seymour Cray and the chief engineer was Cray Research co-founder Lester Davis." (from Wikipedia). This model is exposed at the Science Museum in London, UK.
Directly taken in b&w.
From the Bradbury Science Museum at Los Alamos. I highly recommend this place, especially if you have kids with the tiniest inclination to things engineering and science.
Back when this was new, microprocessors cruised along at 1MHz, the 10231 chips I recall from my telecom days: a dual data latch with a toggle rate around 250MHz give or take. ECL was known for being fast, power hungry, and expensive. This board I promise would get hot enough to fry an egg without air cooling!!
Using Space to Scale Uncharted Mountains
Many mountains on Earth remain undiscovered. Join space physicist and mountaineer Dr Suzie Imber to find out how space satellites, supercomputers, and a passion for exploration has led to her first ascents of previously unknown mountains in the Andes.
Dr Suzie Imber is an Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Leicester and an experienced mountaineer.
19:30-20:00 – LIVE Space
National Space Centre, Leicester
07.10.2017 19:57 BST
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I stopped in at the Science Museum when i was picking up my new bike. I have seen most of the displays before so I didn't take many photos. This particular display of an original Cray supercomputer did catch my eye though. I want to know what Warrick thinks of the wiring! (the fine blue and white wires you can see on the inside).
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 16, 2015) -- The U.S. Army introduced its newest supercomputer, Excalibur, which will help to ensure Soldiers have the technological advantage on the battlefield, officials said.
The Excalibur is the 19th most powerful computer in the world. About 50 officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center.
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The NWSC will advance a broad range of geoscience research, with potential benefits to society in everything from storm prediction to air quality monitoring and the assessment of energy and water resources.
Second in a memorable line of supercomputers, the Cray-2 was developed to process huge quantities of data. Of the series of 30 Cray-2s delivered throughout the world from 1985, fourteen machines were still in service ten years later.
Due to the use of liquid cooling, the Cray-2 was given the nickname "Bubbles", and common jokes around the computer made reference to this unique system. Gags included "No Fishing" signs, cardboard depictions of the Loch Ness Monster rising out of the heat exchanger tank, plastic fish inside the exchanger,
It had four vector processors built with emitter-coupled logic. At 1.9 GFLOPS (FLoating-point Operations Per Second) peak performance, it was the fastest machine in the world when it was released.
To give some sort of reference to today, as of June 20, 2016, China's Sunway TaihuLight was ranked with 93 petaFLOPS on the LINPACK benchmark (out of 125 peak petaFLOPS). It's located at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi.
NATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (NERSC) HOPPER SUPERCOMPUTER CLUSTER AT THE OAKLAND SCIENTIFIC FACILITY (OSF).
Shown are the Cray ECOphlex water-cooled supercomputers.
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The Pegasus was a supercomputer built by Manchester-based Ferranti in 1959. 40 examples were built through 1962, and this was the 25th, built for Skandia Insurance in Sweden. It was one of the first computers to be mass-produced, rather than being built by research institutions as a one-off; its price in 1959 was £45,000, at a time when an average Manchester home was said to be just £1,200.
The Pegasus used vacuum tubes as flip-flop switches; modern computers use transistors in silicon chips. This is considered to be the last vacuum tube computer that still works.
The Pegasus was used for such calculations as the stress load on the Comet airliner fuselage (during the investigation for its breakups), structural load on such buildings as the Sydney Opera House, and guided missile trajectories.
Ph.D. students (left to right) Fuad Jamour, Ibrahim Abdelaziz and Ehab Abdelhamid attended #SC16 to present their work on optimizing the use of supercomputers such as the KAUST Shaheen Cray XC40. The team conducted research under the direction of KAUST Associate Professor Panos Kalnis and with fellow Ph.D. student Zuhair Khayyat. By Nicholas Demille.
A Knox College student working on part of computer science faculty David Bunde's research project, developing software for parallel processing supercomputers.
The computers — called Luna and Surge — are located at computing centers in Reston, Virginia and Orlando, Florida. They are now running at 2.89 petaflops each for a new total of 5.78 petaflops of operational computing capacity, up from 776 teraflops of processing power last year.
... trying to stay focused while passing through a time warp. I think this was generated by a science fiction novel I just finished, "Footprints of God" by Greg Isles. Here's a review:
In The Footprints of God, author Greg Iles has combined scientific facts and religion in a most dexterous manner to create a fantastic and horrifyingly believable scenario.
Is David Tennant going mad, is he plain delusional, or is he telling the unvarnished and horrifying truth? These are the questions which race through psychiatrist Dr. Rachel Weiss’ mind when her patient Tennant tells her a fantastic story about an unimaginably fast and powerful supercomputer and the obsessed people behind it.
Professor of Ethics Dr. David Tennant had been appointed by the President of the United States to oversee the ultra-secret Project Trinity, a project that began as a means to build the world’s first and fastest quantum computer. Using the government’s unlimited resources, one of the most influential men in the development of modern-day computers hires some of the top brains in the world, notably Nobel prize winners, to take part in and help develop this unprecedented venture. Using a highly advanced super MRI, the top people in this project including Tennant, are scanned and their neurological models stored for future use by the computer. But as a result of the unusual scanning procedure, they all develop some curious ailment -- narcolepsy in Tennant’s case, in the throes of which he has the most curious and lifelike dreams about the evolution of the universe and more peculiarly, about Jesus.
As Tennant and one other scientist, Andrew Fielding, have some grave concerns over the medical and ethical aspects of the Trinity project and manage to have it suspended. Soon after, Fielding dies and Tennant knows for certain that he was murdered. Now it’s up to Tennant to stop this dangerously ambitious project from ever happening. When it becomes obvious that the scientists themselves have been split apart by greed and megalomania, there is no one except Rachel whom Tennant can trust. Unable to contact the president, Tennant and Rachel are soon on the run as Geli Bauer, Trinity’s beautifully dangerous and highly efficient head of security, deems them a risk that must be eliminated at all costs. But Geli’s not the only opponent they have to face.
Is all this a part of Tennant’s sick paranoiacal delusions or is there some truth to what he claims?
Genetic/quantum/DNA supercomputers – they’ve become the favorite feature around which some of today’s most famous authors have based their latest hi-tech thrillers. What sets Iles’ work apart is the religious aspect of his story that is not only fantastic but which also contains a truth that cannot be denied no matter how fantastic it all seems. This is not a story about computers/secrets being stolen and Rambo-like spies sent to recover it; this story is, in fact, all about the fundamental struggle between man and his greatest enemy -- his own unlimited intelligence -- and the fruit of this intelligence. Iles has even provided God’s perspective on this whole scenario through the character of David Tennant, adding a fresh dimension to the story. The characterizations are in-depth, compelling and authentic. The plot contains plenty of the usual thriller elements such as car chases, disguises, computer hacking, murderous attempts and the expected miraculous escapes of the main protagonists from impossible situations. The theological aspects of The Footprints of God have a surreal feel to them; they’re not exactly preachy nor are they fully believable, yet there is something so basically right about the concept that it all somehow fits beautifully. It is this quality for which Greg Iles is to be lauded and which makes this a book to remember. This fact that this book is based on a strong scientific concept, which has the terrifying prospect of becoming a reality all too soon makes it unbearably effective, exciting as well as bloodcurdling.
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17/07/2025. Bristol, United Kingdom. Secretary of State Peter Kyle switched on Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful supercomputer housed at the University of Bristol. Picture by Alecsandra Dragoi / DSIT
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ROADRUNNER BASE CAPACITY SYSTEM AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY (LANL) IS NOW AT MORE THAN 70 TERAFLOPS OPERATING SPEED.
Roadrunner, a hybrid supercomputer, uses a video game chip to propel performance to petaflop/s speeds capable of more than a thousand trillion calculations per second.
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