Summit (supercomputer)

Summit
SponsorsUnited States Department of Energy
OperatorsIBM
Architecture9,216 POWER9 22-core CPUs
27,648 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs[1]
Power13 MW[2]
Operating systemRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)[3][4]
Storage250 PB
Speed200 petaFLOPS (peak)
RankingTOP500: 7 (1H2024)
PurposeScientific research
Websitewww.olcf.ornl.gov/olcf-resources/compute-systems/summit/
Summit components
POWER9 wafer with TOP500 certificates for Summit and Sierra

Summit or OLCF-4 is a supercomputer developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, capable of 200 petaFLOPS thus making it the 5th fastest supercomputer in the world after Frontier (OLCF-5), Fugaku, LUMI, and Leonardo, with Frontier being the fastest. It held the number 1 position from November 2018 to June 2020.[5][6] Its current LINPACK benchmark is clocked at 148.6 petaFLOPS.[7]

As of November 2019, the supercomputer had ranked as the 5th most energy efficient in the world with a measured power efficiency of 14.668 gigaFLOPS/watt.[8] Summit was the first supercomputer to reach exaflop (a quintillion operations per second) speed, achieving 1.88 exaflops during a genomic analysis and is expected to reach 3.3 exaflops using mixed-precision calculations.[9]

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  4. ^ Nestor, Marius (11 June 2018). "Meet IBM Summit, World's Fastest and Smartest Supercomputer Powered by Linux". Softpedia News. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  5. ^ Lohr, Steve (8 June 2018). "Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World's Speediest Supercomputer". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Top 500 List - November 2022". TOP500. November 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  7. ^ "November 2022 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites". TOP500. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
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