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Having worked at ANL in the past on other supercomputers, this is an especially impressive and interesting contract. 180PF, even in 2018 is by any definition an
by davidmr 12y ago
Having worked at ANL in the past on other supercomputers, this is an especially impressive and interesting contract. 180PF, even in 2018 is by any definition an absolute monster of a system.
It's also very interesting that the contract was awarded to Cray and not to IBM. ANL's first two supers, Intrepid and Mira, are both IBM Blue Genes.
This must be a very exciting day for ANL and Cray. Congrats!
- filereaper 12y agoBoth Cray and IBM were in the competition for the next supercomputers for: - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - Argonne National Naboratory (ANL) IBM won LLNL and ORNL to create the upcoming Sierra and Summit Supercomputers. We heard down the grapevine that ANL wanted an IBM based system as well, but due to the rules of the competition they were given the Cray system. So the rumour goes anyways, I'm not in the inner circle.
- davidmr 12y agoThat doesn't surprise me at all. The DOE keeps more options open by selecting different vendors for the same generation installs. In the last generation, LLNL and ANL were IBM and ORNL was the Cray. That said, I'm long since out of whatever circle it was that I was in (certainly not the inner one!) as well so I speak with no authority whatsoever.
- batbomb 12y agoNERSC just put Hopper, a cray xe6, online for general use last year. It clocks in at only 1.3 petaflops.
- agumonkey 12y agoSo, I guess I'll have to take the 'ExaScale computing is coming' articles with a grain of salt. Also happy for Cray.
- davidmr 12y agoThis will be a 10x improvement in the 6 years since Titan was built and will get within nearly 20% of an exaflop. How does this not constitute a huge step toward exascale computing?
- agumonkey 12y agoI was under the impression that 2018 would see exascale supercomputers produced.
- davidmr 12y agoSo was Computer World magazine, but wishing don't make it so. It's hard stuff! If we had the gear tomorrow, I sincerely doubt anyone would know how to write efficient applications for it.
- agumonkey 12y agoHehe, I was actually wondering what kind of programs (need to be) run on this and how they're written.