Ibm Builds World’S Virtually Powerful Supercomputer To Cleft Ai (Ibm; Nvda)

First rate, focusing non simply on the raw speed but the AI capabilities every bit well.
From the Financial Times, June 8:

An IBM-designed U.S.A. supercomputer unveiled on Fri is laid to leapfrog Chinese contest to boot the bucket the world’s most powerful for the showtime fourth dimension inwards to a greater extent than than 5 years. The machine, built past times IBM for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has to a greater extent than than double the capacity of the electrical current basis leader, China’s Sunway TaihuLight. But the existent significance may prevarication inwards something other than its raw processing power: it uses a novel figurer architecture to grip huge amounts of information for artificial intelligence, rather than beingness express to the variety of large-scale modelling too simulations that such systems are commonly used for.

Known every bit Summit, the supercomputer boasts 200 petaflops, or quadrillion floating betoken operations per 2d — the principal mensurate for supercomputer capacity. That is almost fourscore times the processing ability claimed for a Chinese organisation when that dry soil showtime topped the basis supercomputer rankings inwards 2010. The Summit automobile was designed amongst large information inwards mind, though on an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than huge scale than the specialised systems used past times companies such every bit Google too Microsoft to grip the information needed to prepare AI algorithms. 

It breaks novel basis amid supercomputers every bit the showtime to last “designed to last the world’s largest too fastest AI organisation from the grouping up”, said John Kelly, caput of cognitive solutions too inquiry at IBM. “It volition last able to accept on simply about of the biggest AI challenges the basis has.” 

Thomas Zacharia, manager of Oak Ridge, said the system, which toll almost $200m, had already been used to comport out a calculation inwards an lx minutes that would take away maintain taken thirty years on a desktop computer....

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Exascale Computers: Competing With Red People's Republic of China Is About to Get Serious

...The 200 petaflop/second (quadrillions of calculations per second) Summit supercomputer beingness built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory volition blow past times the electrical current world's fastest, the 93 petaflop/s Sunway TaihuLight but this latest monster is planned to last 5 times faster still.

At that point, if you lot were to role it for, saaay, preparation artificial intelligence, you lot are going places that the human heed literally can't encompass much less forecast or, dream on, guide....

January 2018 
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January 2018
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We've been babbling almost this 'puter for iii years, usually inwards the context of its role of NVIDIA GPU's too NV Link connections, to a greater extent than afterwards the jump.
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"The Astonishing Engineering Behind America's Latest, Greatest Supercomputer"