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The IBM Summit Supercomputer

NAC4EV

Golden Member
Whereas it was developed at Oak Ridge National Labs in Oak Ridge, TN, I suspect the Russians have already stolen IBM's secert

It's so big, and it's so damm fast? The article says it would take stadiums full of people with laptops minutes to do what it can in a second! Almost 200 miles of fiber optic inter-connecting all the pieces and still so fast! Amazing!

Summit is made up of rows of black, refrigerator-size units that weigh a total of 340 tons and are housed in a 9,250 square-foot room. It is powered by 9,216 central processing chips from IBM and 27,648 graphics processors from Nvidia, another American tech company, that are lashed together with 185 miles of fiber-optic cable.

Cooling Summit requires 4,000 gallons of water a minute, and the supercomputer consumes enough electricity to light up 8,100 American homes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/technology/supercomputer-china-us.html

 
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