World’s most powerful supercomputer handles staggering 200,000 trillion calculations per second

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has unveiled a computer capable of handling 200,000 trillion calculations per second (200 petaflops). Laying claim to the title of the world’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit is eight times more powerful than ORNL’s previous supercomputer, Titan, which came online in 2012 with a capacity of 27 petaflops.

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So what does the US Dept of Energy do with a super computer?

Other than consume energy?

The Rev Dodgson said:

So what does the US Dept of Energy do with a super computer?

Other than consume energy?

to find out…

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Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
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ChrispenEvan said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So what does the US Dept of Energy do with a super computer?

Other than consume energy?

to find out…

…Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip

or how heavy elements are formed in supernova.

The Rev Dodgson said:

So what does the US Dept of Energy do with a super computer?

Other than consume energy?

Predict the weather?

Back in the 1980s, supercomputers at the US Department of energy were used to calculate the performance of atomic bombs.

Calculate pi to nine trillion digits?

Crack codes?

Also back in the 1990s, supercomputers were needed for engineering problems such as time-dependent turbulent fluid flow.

PS. I’m now convinced that Google’s computers, whose size has never been revealed, are at least in the top three most powerful supercomputers in the world, and quite probably the largest.

The Rev Dodgson said:

So what does the US Dept of Energy do with a super computer?

Other than consume energy?

Bitcoin mining, duh! :)

The Rev Dodgson said:

So what does the US Dept of Energy do with a super computer?

Other than consume energy?

• Global warming research would require a supercomputer that large. Those computer models require a very large amount of computer time.
• “Clouds” on the internet are actually supercomputers.
• You know how much supercomputing is required for running the Large Hadron collider at CERN – so much that it exceeds the computing capacity of every individual European country. The US department of energy requires a smaller but similar amount of computing for running the Fermilab.

Here are a few scientific research projects recently worked on at the US Department of Energy.

• Molecular sciences – Molecular monolayers and films.
• A Compendium of Data on Global Change
• The Department of Energy Genome Institute
• Department of Energy Building Technologies Program has set the aggressive goal of producing marketable net-zero energy buildings
• High Energy and Nuclear Physics
• Development of high efficiency solid oxide fuel cells
• Oak ridge national laboratory
• Radioimmunotherapy with Bispecific Antibodies
• Advances in CO2 capture technology, carbon sequestration
• Energy analysis of thermal, chemical, and metallurgical processes
• A computer‐aided design and research tool in photochemistry
• Low-Dose Radiation Hypersensitivity
• Quantum chromodynamics (lattice quantum chromodynamics is a big computer user)

And the above is just the first two pages from a Google search.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-13/gold-coast-veteran-carer-secures-reprieve-from-deportation/9860420

Really, the authorities should simply extend the visitor visa as needed. No need for anything fancy. Just some sense.

Sorry

mollwollfumble said:

Also back in the 1990s, supercomputers were needed for engineering problems such as time-dependent turbulent fluid flow.

Still plenty of engineering problems that are only practicable on super computers.

I just didn’t know the US DoE did that sort of thing.

Does the Aus DoE have a super computer?

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Also back in the 1990s, supercomputers were needed for engineering problems such as time-dependent turbulent fluid flow.

Still plenty of engineering problems that are only practicable on super computers.

I just didn’t know the US DoE did that sort of thing.

Does the Aus DoE have a super computer?

I’m not up to date on that.

Australia’s current fastest supercomputer is the National Computational Infrastructure National Facility in Canberra. “Australia’s high-performance supercomputer, cloud and data repository. Funded by ANU, CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and the ARC.”

There’s a lovely website highlighting scientific research done on this computer, well worth a quick look.

http://nci.org.au/research-news/research/

The first five mentioned there are:

• Ocean simulations
• Molecule shapes
• Lattice quantum mechanics
• Weather forecasting
• Genomes

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Also back in the 1990s, supercomputers were needed for engineering problems such as time-dependent turbulent fluid flow.

Still plenty of engineering problems that are only practicable on super computers.

I just didn’t know the US DoE did that sort of thing.

Does the Aus DoE have a super computer?

I’m not up to date on that.

Australia’s current fastest supercomputer is the National Computational Infrastructure National Facility in Canberra. “Australia’s high-performance supercomputer, cloud and data repository. Funded by ANU, CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and the ARC.”

There’s a lovely website highlighting scientific research done on this computer, well worth a quick look.

http://nci.org.au/research-news/research/

The first five mentioned there are:

• Ocean simulations
• Molecule shapes
• Lattice quantum mechanics
• Weather forecasting
• Genomes
  

If the SKA goes ahead we may require a newer supercomputer.
At least with the NBN we have a decent network to help transmit the information

It would require very high performance central computing engines and long-haul links with a capacity greater than the global Internet traffic as of 2013.

Spiny Norman said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So what does the US Dept of Energy do with a super computer?

Other than consume energy?

Bitcoin mining, duh! :)

If you were the head system admin perhaps you could currency mine, just tell everyone sorry it’s booked and use it for yourself

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Still plenty of engineering problems that are only practicable on super computers.

I just didn’t know the US DoE did that sort of thing.

Does the Aus DoE have a super computer?

I’m not up to date on that.

Australia’s current fastest supercomputer is the National Computational Infrastructure National Facility in Canberra. “Australia’s high-performance supercomputer, cloud and data repository. Funded by ANU, CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and the ARC.”

There’s a lovely website highlighting scientific research done on this computer, well worth a quick look.

http://nci.org.au/research-news/research/

The first five mentioned there are:

• Ocean simulations
• Molecule shapes
• Lattice quantum mechanics
• Weather forecasting
• Genomes
  

At least with the NBN we have a decent network to help transmit the information

rofl. The researchers will still be posting hard drives to each other (although many unis have a T1 connection…).

I wonder if you could create a supercomputer (and software for that matter) than could simulate a working human body down to the molecular level to test drug interactions, disease modelling,etc.

I remember reading this article, it’s brain simulation and proves we have a long way to go

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/24/supercomputers-can-now-simulate-basic-brain-functions-and-theres-more-on-the-horizon/#18566dc29dfc

Perhaps we need to find a way to plug in the human brain and use it as supercomputer, donate your brain when dead to science

Cymek said:

I wonder if you could create a supercomputer (and software for that matter) than could simulate a working human body down to the molecular level to test drug interactions, disease modelling,etc.

I remember reading this article, it’s brain simulation and proves we have a long way to go

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/24/supercomputers-can-now-simulate-basic-brain-functions-and-theres-more-on-the-horizon/#18566dc29dfc

Perhaps we need to find a way to plug in the human brain and use it as supercomputer, donate your brain when dead to science

Not even close.

But I should probably read the link before saying more :)

The Rev Dodgson said:

Cymek said:

I wonder if you could create a supercomputer (and software for that matter) than could simulate a working human body down to the molecular level to test drug interactions, disease modelling,etc.

I remember reading this article, it’s brain simulation and proves we have a long way to go

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/24/supercomputers-can-now-simulate-basic-brain-functions-and-theres-more-on-the-horizon/#18566dc29dfc

Perhaps we need to find a way to plug in the human brain and use it as supercomputer, donate your brain when dead to science

Not even close.

But I should probably read the link before saying more :)

No its not even close which was why I was postulating using brains as computer, pretty compact for what they can do.
I wonder if human or even any animal brain folding could be adopted for chips to increase surface area

Damn you Wikipedia I was reading about brains, then went to Encephalization quotient and now Neuroscience and intelligence, will I get to Kevin Bacon

Cymek said:

Damn you Wikipedia I was reading about brains, then went to Encephalization quotient and now Neuroscience and intelligence, will I get to Kevin Bacon

That needs to go in the “I’m only human” thread.

Cymek said:

If the SKA goes ahead we may require a newer supercomputer.
At least with the NBN we have a decent network to help transmit the information

It would require very high performance central computing engines and long-haul links with a capacity greater than the global Internet traffic as of 2013.

Very good point. “SKA will require very high-performance central supercomputers capable of in excess of 100 petaflops”

The survey that monkey skipper pointed me to yesterday led to a WA organisation that among other things is designing algorithms for routing of SKA data. Dang it. Can’t find it now. Not on my “history”.