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Title is not really right, when finished it will be in top5. > When LUMI’s operations start next year, it will be one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. >
by yetihehe 6y ago
Title is not really right, when finished it will be in top5.
> When LUMI’s operations start next year, it will be one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
> The peak performance of LUMI is an astonishing 552 petaflop/s meaning 552 *10^15 floating point operations per second. This figure makes LUMI one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. For comparison, the world’s fastest computer today (Fugaku in Japan) reaches 513 petaflop/s and the second fastest (Summit in the US) 200 petaflop/s
But good to see heat used for district heating, also that's probably the first supercomputer which will not be used for calculating aging atomic weapon yields.
edit: first time I heard about not calculating aging atomic weapon yields. Thanks.
- stonogo 6y agoSummit is used entirely for unclassified computations.
- gnufx 6y agoLike most supercomputers (outside the Tri-Labs?), of course.
- atty 6y agoTo elaborate a bit, there are planned to be at least 3 exascale computers running by the end of 2021, that I am aware of (1 in China and 2 in the US), with Frontier at ORNL estimated to provide about 3x the compute power of LUMI. It’s good to see the supercomputer arms race going strong. There are so many problems in the physical sciences that just can’t be solved without larger and larger supercomputer-style clusters. I know this is a kind of ill-formed question, but does anyone in the neuro or bio fields know how far away we are from being able to convincingly simulate a brain (human or other mammal), in terms of raw compute power?