(IJCH) Can You Imagine 200 Petaflops? (or How ORNL Has Top Bragging Rights Again
(IJCH) Can You Imagine 200 Petaflops? (or How ORNL Has Top Bragging Rights Again)
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What is a Petaflop?
A petaflop is a measurement of the speed of computer's processing capabilities.
It can be expressed as follows:
A quadrillion (thousand trillion) floating point operations per second (FLOPS)
A thousand teraflops
10 to the 15th power FLOPS
2 to the 50th power FLOPS
Why is computing at Petaflop Speed significant?
Petaflop computing enables scientist to model complex systems much more efficiently and effectively.
No longer will it take days or weeks to process molecular designs - only to find out that the clumsy renderings are inaccurate!
Anticipated applications for petaflop computing include:
Real-time nuclear magnetic resonance DURING surgery
Astrophysical simulation
Climate change mapping,
Atmospheric modeling of environmental pollution
Machine learning
Neural networking and other AI applications.
Fast drug design
Top Bragging Rights
The world’s fastest computer is ranked twice a year by computer scientists in the US and Germany.
Top honors have gone to China for the last two years with its Sunway TaihuLight.
But now...
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory brought the Summit supercomputer online this month.
Supporters of Summit include:
IBM
NVIDIA
The State of Tennessee
DOE
And as of June 8, 2018 Summit became the fastest supercomputer in the world.
Its speed has been rated at 200 petaflops/sec.
That's 200 petaflops which equals quadrillion (two hundred thousand trillion) calculations per second.
To put it differently, everyone on earth would have to do one computation every second of every day for one year to match what Summit can do in one second!
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That is really amazing!
Thanks for sharing
Happy to oblige.
Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Namaste, Jaichai
Amazing,@jaichai i really need to know more of the information. Thats why i love following your work.
Thanks so much for visiting and the kind words.
May you and yours be well and love life today.
Namaste, JaiChai
That is some serious computing power there, and it is essential for the development of Science! However, I am really forward to the day that Quantum computers come online, this will be a huge game changer and will have the benefit of being able to model so many currently unsolvable scientific and mathematical problems.
I agree and wrote a a few articles about it in the past.
Thanks for visiting.
Namaste, JaiChai
That is crazy computing power. What I would give to just visit the place. We have come too far.