US is Back - World's Fastest Supercomputer
The United States Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has unveiled a new supercomputer, dubbed Summit, that reclaims the title of world's fastest supercomputer from China. The system, which runs on chips from IBM and Nvidia, can perform 200 quadrillion calculations per second, or 200 petaflops, to best China's 93-petaflop TaihuLight machine, which grabbed the title back in 2016, Fortune reports. The race is between two countries: others are just spectators. Watch out by 2020, China will leap past and U.S. will return and China....you get the idea!
Summit will be used for research in fields including energy, advanced materials, and artificial intelligence. According to supercomputing news site Top500, it was built by IBM using IBM’s Power9 CPUs and Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs.