Summit is a stepping stone towards a world of exascale computing.
The winner: The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken the wraps off Summit, which boasts peak computing power of 200 petaflops, or the ability to perform 200 million billion calculations a second. That makes it a million times faster than your typical laptop.
The loser: China. Summit is 60 percent faster than the previous supercomputing leader, the Sunway TaihuLight based in the Chinese city of Wuxi.
AI smarts: Summit is the first supercomputer designed from the ground up to handle machine learning, neural networks, and other AI applications.
Why this matters: Topping the supercomputing charts isn’t just a matter of national pride. The machines are widely used in industry and for national security tasks. Lessons from Summit will also inform the push to create “exascale” computers capable of handling a billion billion calculations a second.
The winner: The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken the wraps off Summit, which boasts peak computing power of 200 petaflops, or the ability to perform 200 million billion calculations a second. That makes it a million times faster than your typical laptop.
The loser: China. Summit is 60 percent faster than the previous supercomputing leader, the Sunway TaihuLight based in the Chinese city of Wuxi.
AI smarts: Summit is the first supercomputer designed from the ground up to handle machine learning, neural networks, and other AI applications.
Why this matters: Topping the supercomputing charts isn’t just a matter of national pride. The machines are widely used in industry and for national security tasks. Lessons from Summit will also inform the push to create “exascale” computers capable of handling a billion billion calculations a second.
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