This Supercomputer Can Calculate in 1 Second What Would Take You 6 Billion Years
By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | June 14, 2018 05:13pm ET
This Supercomputer Can Calculate in 1 Second What Would Take You 6 Billion Years
To keep Summit from overheating, more than 4,000 gallons of water pump through its cooling system every minute, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory where the beast is housed.
It's shiny, fast and ultrapowerful. But it's not the latest Alpha Romeo. A physics laboratory in Tennessee just unveiled Summit, likely to be named the world's speediest and smartest supercomputer.
Perhaps most exciting for the U.S.? It's faster than China's.
The supercomputer — which fills a server room the size of two tennis courts — can spit out answers to 200 quadrillion (or 200 with 15 zeros) calculations per second, or 200 petaflops, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the supercomputer resides.
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