Summit once stood as the most powerful supercomputer in the world, taking the top spot on the Top500 list during 2018 and 2019. It has 4,356 nodes, each one powered by two IBM Power9 22-core 3.07 ...

The Summit supercomputer has a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second — or 200 petaflops, making it eight times faster than the Titan Cray X supercomputer that came before it.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)’s Summit supercomputer is currently the fastest — and the smartest — in the world. Speed is fairly indisputable: Summit comes in at 200 petaFLOPS, while ...

China's Sunway TaihuLight, the previous holder of the title of the world's fastest supercomputer until Summit came along, clocked in at 125 petaFLOPS, which is five times faster than the next ...

The new supercomputer delivers a potential thousandfold increase in processing from the petascale computers of a decade ago. “I am truly excited by the potential of Summit, as it moves the nation one ...

Summit supercomputer is big. Summit divides work among 4,608 interconnected computer nodes housed in refrigerator-sized cabinets and liquid-cooled by pumping 4,000 gallons of water per minute ...

These and other scientific challenges are being addressed by users of Summit, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer, which is located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Perhaps most important, codes ...

Artificial intelligence—Summit’s biggest advantage over Titan— allows supercomputer users to build a model, and then tell the machine to look for patterns that might be like that model.

IBM’s Summit supercomputer identified 77 drug compounds that could stop the coronavirus spike from infecting host cells. This could help scientists create the most effective vaccine.

Big iron aficionados packed the room when ORNL’s Jack Wells gave the latest update on the upcoming 207 petaflops Summit supercomputer at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC18) this week. In just eight ...