Summit (supercomputer)

Summit
Sponsors U.S. Department of Energy
Operators IBM
Architecture 9216 POWER9 22-core CPUs
27,648 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs[1]
Power 13 MW[2]
Storage 250 PB
Purpose Scientific research
Web site www.olcf.ornl.gov/olcf-resources/compute-systems/summit/

Summit or OLCF-4 is a supercomputer developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which as of June 8, 2018 is the fastest supercomputer in the world, capable of 200 petaflops.[3] Its current LINPACK benchmark is clocked at 122.3 petaflops.[4] As of June 2018, the supercomputer is also the 5th most energy efficient in the world with a measured power efficiency of 13.889 GFlops/watts.[5] Summit is the first supercomputer to reach exascale speed, achieving 1.88 exaops during a genomic analysis and is expected to reach 3.3 exaops using mixed precision calculations.[6]

History

The United States Department of Energy awarded a $325 million contract in November, 2014 to IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox. The effort resulted in construction of Summit and Sierra. Summit is tasked with civilian scientific research and is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Sierra is designed for nuclear weapons simulations and is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.[7] Summit is estimated to cover the space of two basketball courts and require 136 miles of cabling.[8] Researchers will utilize Summit for diverse fields such as cosmology, medicine and climatology.[9]

In 2015, the project called Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) included a third supercomputer named Aurora and was planned for installation at Argonne National Laboratory[10] By 2018, Aurora was re-engineered with completion anticipated in 2021 as an exascale computing project along with Frontier and El Capitan to be completed shortly thereafter.[11]

Design

Each node has over 600 GiB of coherent memory (6×16 = 96 GiB HBM2 plus 2×8×32 = 512 GiB DDR4 SDRAM) which is addressable by all CPUs and GPUs plus 800 GB of non-volatile RAM that can be used as a burst buffer or as extended memory.[12] The POWER9 CPUs and Volta GPUs are connected using NVIDIA's high speed NVLink. This allows for a heterogeneous computing model.[13] To provide a high rate of data throughput, the nodes will be connected in a non-blocking fat-tree topology using a dual-rail Mellanox EDR InfiniBand interconnect for both storage and inter-process communications traffic which delivers both 200Gb/s bandwidth between nodes and in-network computing acceleration for communications frameworks such as MPI and SHMEM/PGAS.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer".
  2. ↑ Liu, Zhiye (26 June 2018). "US Dethrones China With IBM Summit Supercomputer". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Lohr, Steve (8 June 2018). "Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World's Speediest Supercomputer". New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "June 2018 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites". TOP500. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Green500 List - June 2018". TOP500. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  6. ↑ Holt, Kris. "The US again has the world's most powerful supercomputer". Engadget. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Shankland, Steven (14 September 2015). "IBM, Nvidia land $325M supercomputer deal". C|Net. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  8. ↑ Alcorn, Paul (20 November 2017). "Regaining America's Supercomputing Supremacy With The Summit Supercomputer". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Noyes, Katherine (16 March 2015). "IBM, Nvidia rev HPC engines in next-gen supercomputer push". PC World. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  10. ↑ R. Johnson, Colin (15 April 2015). "IBM vs. Intel in Supercomputer Bout". EE Times. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  11. ↑ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (9 April 2018). "Bidders Off And Running After $1.8 Billion DOE Exascale Super Deals". The Next Platform. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  12. ↑ Lilly, Paul (January 25, 2017). "NVIDIA 12nm FinFET Volta GPU Architecture Reportedly Replacing Pascal In 2017". HotHardware.
  13. ↑ "Summit and Sierra Supercomputers: An Inside Look at the U.S. Department of Energy's New Pre-Exascale Systems" (PDF). November 1, 2014.
Records
Preceded by
Sunway TaihuLight
93.01 petaflops		 World's most powerful supercomputer
June 2018 –		 Incumbent
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