Meet Sierra: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’S Novel Supercomputer (Ibm; Nvda)

From the Mercury News:

With Livermore’s Sierra, the U.S.A. at in 1 lawsuit holds ii of the summit 3 most powerful computers

Suddenly, your smart weep upwards feels actually dumb.

Meet Sierra, Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s’ novel supercomputer that tin dismiss perform 125 quadrillion calculations per 2nd — intend 125 followed past times xv zeroes — too volition guard our nation’s nuclear stockpile.

To tally that, every someone on footing would possess got to practice 1 calculation every second, for 24 hours a twenty-four hours – for an entire year.

Unveiled Friday, the $150 meg Sierra gives the U.S.A. bragging rights to ii of the summit 3 positions inward global supercomputing. The novel auto ranks behind Oak Ridge National Lab’s Summit too China’s Sunway TaihuLight.

It’s non only powerful, it has a stunning memory. There’s plenty storage infinite to concur every written locomote of humanity, inward all languages – twice.

“But it is non how large or where it ranks, it’s the scientific discipline it volition support,” said Bronis de Supinski, Livermore Computing’s primary applied scientific discipline officeholder too caput of Livermore Lab’s Advanced Technology systems.

Sierra was conceived inward a hotel room close Chicago’s O’Hare Airport at the halt of 2012, inward a U.S.A. Department of Energy collaboration betwixt Livermore, Oak Ridge too Argonne. But over its 4 years of construction, the projection encountered logistical hiccups, technical challenges too 1 major surprise: The surging cost of memory, tied to the global demand for smart phones. It caused prices to double inward the concluding 3 months of 2016, said de Supinski. After negotiations, IBM made changes to its network to compensate, keeping the projection on budget.

Despite our advances, the National Security Agency too the Department of Energy possess got warned that China is poised to outrank America inward high-performance computing.

Built past times IBM too NVIDIA, Sierra is desiged to back upwards the nation’s 3 nuclear safety laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories too Los Alamos National Laboratory.

And that back upwards is critical. As North Korea continues to pursue nuclear-weapon technologies, our organization is aging. Not fifty-fifty a wheel is engineered to sit down inactive for decades too yet hold out able to natural springtime into activity at a moment’s notice. But that’s what is expected of a nuclear weapon.

For example, how would a hairline scissure behaviour upon the life of a nuclear warhead? Without detonation, Sierra helps us honour out. It tin dismiss procedure the information needed to practice a 3D picture, modeling too simulating a growing fracture inward the deadly device.

“It enables simulations 100,000 times to a greater extent than realistic than is possible on a desktop,” said Fred Streitz, manager of the Lab’s Institute for Scientific Computer Research....MUCH MORE

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