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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee has announced plans, via X/Twitter, to retire its Summit supercomputer in November 2024. After six years of service and over 200 million node ...

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 ...

The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has had its life extended for an additional year. Originally scheduled for shutdown at the start ...

Researchers enlist Summit supercomputer to combat coronavirus. It’s important to note that the results from Summit’s efforts do not mean that a cure or treatment for COVID-19 has been achieved.

Using the now-decommissioned Summit supercomputer, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ran the largest and most accurate molecular dynamics simulations yet of ...