IBM's supercomputer set a new record

After being upgraded by US computer scientists, the Sequoia supercomputer, built by IBM, quickly set a new record with 504 billion calculations per second.

>>>Watson supercomputer takes on the role of chef

Built by IBM computer maker, the Sequoi supercomputer has a total capacity and speed equivalent to about one million desktops.

Sequoia supercomputer.(Photo: IBM)

Recently US computer scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livemore, Alameda County, California and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have successfully upgraded their buildings. this machine.

The team increased Sequoia's cores from 1.6 million cores to a record of 1.97 million cores, and set up 'discrete calculation modeling' so that the machine could implement 7, 86 million tasks at the same time.

As a result, Sequoia's modeling speed quickly set a record of 504 billion calculations per second, breaking a very old record set in 2009 with 'only' 12.2 billion calculations per second.

This result paves the way for scientific discoveries about future complex measurement systems. It is known that discrete calculation models are used to establish an unusual system model with events that cannot be described by equations such as communication networks, traffic flow, Economic and ecological models, military battle scenarios and other complex systems.

The study's author is Peter Jr Barnes, David Jefferson of LLNL, Chris Carothers of CCNI and Justin Lapre graduate student of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.