IBM’s ‘Sequoia’ has been declared as the fastest supercomputer in the latest Top500 list of the world’s fastest systems. The supercomputer has been developed for US government nuclear simulations and to study climate change and the human genome.
The system is armed with more than 1.57 million Power cores that are capable to hit a performance of 16.32 petaflops per second that is about 1.5 million times faster than the average speed of a most efficient laptop.
U.S. has gained the position after three years. ‘Sequoia’ is much faster than the now number 2, the Fujitsu’s K Computer which had a performance of 10.5 petaflops.
The Sequoia supercomputer is made of 96 large towers. Each tower contains 32 racks filled with 32 cards. The computing power is equivalent to nearly 99,000 laptops.
The machine uses water instead of air to cool it which is the most difficult challenge because the water should reach to every single component of the 1024 processors, which is too tough a task to be performed.
IBM has been developing supercomputers since 2000. The Sequoia is 90 times more powerful than even IBM's first supercomputer.
The Sequoia is an IBM machine that is part of a generation of IBM supercomputers known as BlueGene/Q. It is based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The supercomputer is a highly interconnected cluster of 1,572,864 processors, mounted on 98,304 compute nodes that are arranged on a series of 96 standing racks across 318 square meters of floor space.
The list was revealed on Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
The supercomputer works for National Nuclear Safety Administration, astonishing medical therapy and many more important works.
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