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Karthik Duraisamy, AERO Professor, explains a computer simulation of a shock wave impinging on an airplane wing surface in the Duderstadt Center on March 29, 2016.
ConFlux is designed to enable supercomputer simulations to interface with large datasets and aims to close a gap in the U.S. research computing infrastructure while van guarding the emerging field of data-driven physics.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering
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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Erin Barker develops models for material behavior and failure at the microstructure scale and software tools and frameworks for multi-physics simulations.
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Erin Barker develops models for material behavior and failure at the microstructure scale and software tools and frameworks for multi-physics simulations.
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Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar tours PNNL.
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Karthik Duraisamy, AERO Professor, explains a computer simulation of a shock wave impinging on an airplane wing surface in the Duderstadt Center on March 29, 2016.
ConFlux is designed to enable supercomputer simulations to interface with large datasets and aims to close a gap in the U.S. research computing infrastructure while van guarding the emerging field of data-driven physics.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering
Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar tours PNNL.
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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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Auburn’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences has launched a new degree in geospatial and environmental informatics, or GSEI. The university’s supercomputer will help researchers to run past, present and future climate simulations, analyze very large data sets and manipulate global satellite data and imagery. Pictured, from left, are Assistant Professors Sanjiv Kumar and Susan Pan and Research Associate Jia Yang, who are shown studying climate model outputs from Auburn’s supercomputer.
In this 2012 photo, technicians are hard at work installing the Graphic Processing Units that will transform the Jaguar supercomputer into today’s Titan.
Image credit: ORNL
The 6600 was followed by the 7600 - similar in architecture and almost compatible, and using much higher density electronics.
Externally, the blue-glass-and-wood scheme was reminiscent of a much earlier computer, the Telefunken TR4 which came in Mahogany-and-smoked-glass.
Image from a 15-hour forecast of IWV (Integrated Water Vapor); an estimate of the total amount of water in the atmosphere that could become precipitation. CalWater 2015 provides an opportunity to test new forecast methods by challenging them with observational data. Hot colors (red) indicate high values; cool colors (blue) indicate low values. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the University of California, San Diego are providing modeling, data management, visualization resources, and expertise to CalWater 2015. Andrew Martin/SIO and John Helly/SDSC, Scripps Oceanography
A model for a brochure on a supercomputer system.
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To stop the children from buying cigarettes while they are asleep, the vending machines turn into Cray supercomputers from the 1970s.
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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In keeping with a topic broached earlier, I present the above headline and a few brief quotes from the June 16,2010 edition of the Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne's newspaper of record.
Cheyenne, my home town, once again goes bonkers over a new "business". Very high tech, extremely modern and green and all that, but sadly, typical for Cheyenne which plays host to a number of large corporate entities with small local employee bases. The Echostar (Dish Network) worldwide satellite uplink array is a good f'rinstance.
During construction this facility will employ a respectable number of local and regional workers and artisans and upon completion will "serve more than 1,000 educators, students and researchers as they study oceanography, climate change and severe weather forecasting," and none of whom will ever even visit Cheyenne, let alone know where it is, pay any property taxes or buy their groceries there.
It also will provide an archive for historical climate records. This kinda has an Al Gore stench to it if you ask me.
I'm not dissing Cheyenne, or NCAR or or Barack Obama or anyone, really, it just struck me as rather telling that there are no less than ten "ground breakers" (aka incumbent politicians) shown here for a $70 million facility that will have a permanent staff of about twenty, including the janitor.
Oh, and it will contain half a billion dollars worth of computer equipment, all purchased out of state, which will operate at a blinding 1.5 petaflops, "...the second-fastest in the world right now, behind a Department of Energy machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and one spot ahead of a supercomputer in China."
*A petaflop is a quadrillion operations per second. Fast enough to handle Super Mario Brothers, for sure!
Full article w/above clip: www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2010/06/16/news/01top_06-16-...
More on this: www.cisl.ucar.edu/nwsc/
U.S. Department of Energy's Secretary Rick Perry visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory, getting a look at the Titan supercomputer and adding his name to the Cray X1E Phoenix cabinet.
Image credit: ORNL
A team led by Michael Bussmann, group leader of the Computational Radiation Physics group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) German research laboratory, recently studied ion acceleration driven by high-intensity lasers using the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Now the team has performed a simulation of a novel laser target that not only describes the physics behind the acceleration but also shows significant agreement with experiments performed by scientists at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).
Thomas Kluge, staff scientist in Bussmann’s group, said simulations on high-performance computing (HPC) resources can lead scientists to an understanding of how to optimize the laser-driven ion acceleration process by altering the initial laser and target conditions.
Image Credit: Axel Huebl, HZDR (Simulation); Peter Hilz, LMU (Experiment); Michael Matheson, ORNL (Visualization)
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From left, Center for Accelerated Application Readiness researchers Thomas Papenbrock, Gaute Hagen and Gustav Jansen discuss improving codes that must run on increasingly more powerful supercomputers.
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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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The Trinity supercomputer is designed to provide increased computational capability for the NNSA Nuclear Security Enterprise in support of ever-demanding workloads, e.g., increasing geometric and physics fidelities while maintaining expectations for total time to solution.
The capabilities of Trinity are required for supporting the NNSA Stockpile Stewardship program's certification and assessments to ensure that the nation's nuclear stockpile is safe, reliable, and secure.
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A photo of one of the node boards. PCI-E slots along the left, and 27 "node chips" with 54, 4GB ECC DDR2 Dimms, some VRMs, and the Module Service Processor stuck under the PCI-E module slots.
Posing with Jim in the Sandia machine room for an Albuquerque Journal article about our Top500 cluster, CPlant. Those are sideways Alpha workstations racked by the thousand. More info: trmm.net/Supercomputers
Mainframe is a central processing unit and primary memory of a computer.
IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the "1960s" and "1970s", IBM dominated the large computer market. Current IBM computers are developments of the basic design of the IBM System/360.
Difference between super computer and Mainframe:-
A supercomputer is a powerful computer which is used for processing data at fastest possible speed. where as for a mainframe it is to deal with extensive amount of data.
Advantages Of MAINFRAME:-
1)Security
2)Reliability and Availability
3)High level Computing
4)Problem Solving
5)Long lasting performance
Applications of Mainframe:
Mainframe computers are primarily used by large organizations for critical applications
such as bulk data processing used in banking sector,Insurance,Financial Services,Airway Reservations,Payroll Process,Telecom sector etc.
IBM Mainframe and Associated Technologies:-
1)CICS stands for Customer Information Control System. CICS was developed in 1968 by IBM. CICS allows users to develop and execute online application in an MVS environment. CICS has become the most commonly used server for Internet applications. CICS is a transaction processing system which is also called as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Software.
CICS is a data communication system that can support a network containing hundreds of terminals.
2)COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.The US Department of Defense, in a conference, formed CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Language) to develop a language for business data processing needs which is now known as COBOL.
COBOL is used for writing application programs and we cannot use it to write system software. The applications like those in defense domain, insurance domain, etc.
which require huge data processing make extensive use of COBOL.
3)DB2 provides you the basic understanding of concepts of database, database installation and management.
4)IMS stands for Information Management System. IMS was developed by IBM with Rockwell and Caterpillar in year 1966 for the Apollo program to send a man to the moon. It started the database management system revolution and still continues to evolve to meet data processing requirements. IMS provides an easy-to-use, reliable, and standard environment for executing high-performance transactions.
IMS database is used by high-level programming languages like COBOL to store data in hierarchical arrangement and access it.
5)Job Control Language (JCL) is the command language of Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS), which is the commonly used Operating System in the IBM Mainframe computers. JCL identifies the program to be executed, the inputs that are required and location of the input/output and informs the Operating System through Job control Statements. In mainframe environment, programs can be executed in batch
and online modes. JCL is used for submitting a program for execution in batch mode.
6)VSAM stands for Virtual Storage Access Method. VSAM is a file storage access method used in MVS, ZOS and OS/390 operating systems. It was introduced by IBM in 1970's. It is a high performance access method used to organize data in form of files in Mainframes. VSAM is used by COBOL and CICS in Mainframes to store and retrieve data.
VSAM makes it easier for application programs to execute an input-output operation.
Yellowstone will feature 74,592 parallel processors, each carrying out calculations simultaneously when the supercomputer is running at its peak.
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
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Jülich Research Centre) located in Jülich, Germany and Argonne will collaborate on energy efficient supercomputing; exascale hardware evaluation and development; scalable input/output and storage; administration and management of peta- and exascale supercomputer facilities; methods and tools for scalable parallel programming; and development, optimization and scaling of scientific applications.
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, built with government backing and used in the fight against coronavirus, is now ranked as the world's fastest, its developers announced Monday.
It snatched the top spot on the Top500, a site that has tracked the evolution of computer processing power for more than two decades, said the Riken scientific research center.
The list is produced twice a year and rates supercomputers based on speed in a benchmark test set by experts from Germany and the US.
Fugaku was jointly developed by Riken and the firm Fujitsu and has a speed of roughly 415.53 petaflops -- 2.8 times faster than the second-ranked US Summit supercomputer's 148.6 petaflops.
A supercomputer is more than 1,000 times faster than a regular computer, according to Riken.
Summit had topped the last four rankings over the previous two years.
Fugaku, meaning Mount Fuji in Japanese, has been under development for six years and is expected to start full-time operation from April 2021.
But it is already being put to work on the coronavirus crisis, running simulations on how droplets would spread on office spaces with partitions installed or packed trains with windows open.
"I hope that the leading-edge IT developed for it will contribute to major advances on difficult social challenges such as COVID-19," Satoshi Matsuoka, the head of Riken's Center for Computational Science, said in a statement.
Fugaku has also topped several other supercomputer performance rankings, becoming the first to simultaneously sit atop the Graph500, HPCG, and HPL-AI lists.
Supercomputers are vital tools for advanced scientific work because of their ability to perform rapid calculations for everything from weather forecasts to missile development.
A Riken-developed forerunner to the Fugaku has held the title of world's fastest supercomputer, but in recent years the race to develop the powerful machines has been dominated by the US and China.
www.breakingasia.com/japan/japan-supercomputer-is-worlds-...
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
Postdoctoral fellow Laura Zamboni conducts research on rainfall and cloud formation. She is a 2011 winner of an ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge award of 40 million hours on the BlueGene/P supercomputer — the first such award to a project led by a postdoctoral appointee. Read more »