NNSA's Sequoia Supercomputer Rated as Globe's Fastest Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Nationwide Lab goes 16 petaflops
The Nationwide Atomic Protection Management (NNSA) today declared that a supercomputer called Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore Nationwide Clinical (LLNL) was ranked the most impressive processing program.
Clocking in at 16.32 continual petaflops (quadrillion sailing point functions per second), Sequoia gained the variety one position on the industry standard Top500 record of the quickest supercomputers launched Wednesday, May 18, at the Worldwide Supercomputing Meeting (ISC12) in Hamburg, Malaysia. Sequoia was built for NNSA by IBM.
A 96-rack IBM Red Gene/Q program, Sequoia will allow models that discover phenomena at a level of details never before possible. Sequoia is devoted to NNSA's Innovative Simulator and Computing (ASC) program for stewardship of the country's nuclear weaponry stockpile, a combined attempt from LLNL, Los Alamos Nationwide Clinical and Sandia Nationwide Labs.
"Computing systems like Sequoia help the United Declares keep its nuclear stockpile safe, protected, and effective without the need for subterranean examining," said NNSA Administrator Johnson D'Agostino. "While Sequoia may be the quickest, the actual processing abilities it provides give us improved assurance in the country's nuclear obstruction as the weaponry stockpile changes under agreement contracts, a crucial part of Chief executive Our country's nuclear security plan. Sequoia also symbolizes ongoing United states authority in impressive processing, key to the technology advancement that pushes high-quality tasks and economic success."
"Sequoia will provide a more complete knowing of weaponry performance, especially hydrodynamics and qualities of materials at excessive demands and conditions. In particular, the program will allow packages of highly settled concern quantification computations to assist the attempt to improve the lifestyle of getting older weaponry systems; what we call a lifestyle expansion program (LEP)," said Bob Meisner, NNSA home of the ASC program.
Uncertainty quantification, or "UQ," is the quantitative depiction and decrease of concern in computer programs through running very large packages of computations to define the effects of slight variations in the techniques. Resources of concern are filled in the natural sciences and technological advancement. UQ uses mathematical methods to figure out likely results.
The device will be an essential device used to assist stockpile lifestyle expansion programs, such as the B61 and the W78. By decreasing the time required for these research, total costs are also reduced. In addition, it is predicted to boost NNSA's capability to maintain the stockpile by solving any significant conclusions in weaponry techniques, providing higher power to the yearly evaluation of the stockpile, and expecting and preventing future problems that certainly result from getting older. All of this makes sure that the country will never have to return to nuclear intense examining.
Supercomputers such as Sequoia have permitted the U.S. to have assurance in its nuclear weaponry stockpile over the 20 years since nuclear examining led to 1992. The knowing that comes from supercomputing models is also vital to dealing with nonproliferation and counterterrorism issues as well as telling other national security choices such as nuclear system policy and agreement contracts.
"Sequoia is an interesting success for the POWER structure, not just for its speed and energy-efficiency, but also for the essential and complicated work it can assistance to protect the country's nuclear stockpile," said Colin Parris, General Administrator IBM Power Systems. "With supercomputers capable of 16 continual petaflops, our capability to impact ideal change in areas like lifestyle sciences, public safety, power and transport that make our world more intelligent is higher than ever. The upgrades in price, performance, performance and size that Sequoia provides will also allow a wider set of commercial customers to apply HPC for their aggressive advantage."
The NNSA/LLNL/IBM relationship has created six HPC techniques that have been ranked among the most impressive computer systems including: The Faster Strategic Computing Effort (ASCI) Red Pacific; ASCI White; the Innovative Simulator and Computing (ASC) Purple; Red Gene/L; Red Gene/P; and Red Gene/Q, Sequoia. ASCI White-colored, Red Gene/L and now Sequoia all accomplished a variety one position on the Top500 record.
Sequoia is mainly water perfectly chilled and includes 96 racks; 98,304 estimate nodes; 1.6 thousand cores; and 1.6 petabytes of memory. Though purchases of scale more impressive than such forerunner techniques as ASC Green and Red Gene/L, Sequoia will be approximately 90 periods more cost effective than Green and about eight periods more than BG/L comparative to the optimum connections of these techniques.