IBM and Nvidia to Shame Tianhe-2 With 150 Petaflop Supercomputer
THE US DEPARMENT OF ENERGY (DoE) has thrown $325m at IBM and Nvidia to build the world’s fastest supercomputers by 2017.
Dubbed Sierra and Summit, the two supercomputers are tipped to deliver more three times the performance of those currently available.
They are expected to perform at 100 petaflops and 150 petaflops, respectively, compared to the world’s current top super-computer, the Intel-powered Tianhe-2, which performs at 55 petaflops.
This will be thanks to IBM’s OpenPower chips and Nvidia’s new Volta graphics chip, along with Mellanox’s high-speed networking kit.
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