(IJCH) Can You Imagine 200 Petaflops? (or How ORNL Currently Has Top Bragging Rights)

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What is a Petaflop?

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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?

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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

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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.

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Summit

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Supporters of Summit include:

IBM

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NVIDIA

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The State of Tennessee

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DOE

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As of June 8, 2018 Summit became the fastest supercomputer in the world...

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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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"Summit Supercomputer"

Wonder how long Summit stays on top?By JaiChai

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About the Author

Believing that school was too boring, he dropped out of High School early; only to earn an AA, BS and MBA in less than 4 years much later in life – while working full-time as a Navy/Marine Corps Medic.

In spite of a fear of heights and deep water, he performed high altitude, free-fall parachute jumps and hazardous diving ops in deep, open ocean water.

After 24 years of active duty, he retired in Asia.

Since then, he's been a full-time, single papa and actively pursuing his varied passions (Writing, Disruptive Technology, Computer Science and Cryptocurrency - plus more hobbies too boring or bizarre for most folk).

He lives on an island paradise with his teenage daughter, longtime girlfriend and three dogs.