Perlmutter (supercomputer)

Perlmutter (also known as NERSC-9) is a supercomputer scheduled to be delivered to the United States Department of Energy in 2020.[1] It is being built by Cray and is based on their upcoming Shasta architecture which is planned to utilize Zen 3 based AMD Epyc CPUs ("Milan") and next-generation Nvidia Tesla GPUs[2]. Its intended use-cases are nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections and material and biological research[3]. It is predicted to reach approximately 100 PFLOPS of processing power[4]

It is named in honour of Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter.[1]

References
  1. Moss, Sebastian. "Lawrence Berkeley to install Perlmutter supercomputer featuring Cray's Shasta system". Data Centre Dynamics. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  2. "Nersc Perlmutter: 100-Petaflops-Supercomputer nutzt AMDs Epyc-CPUs - Golem.de".
  3. "GPUs to Power Perlmutter, NERSC's New Supercomputer - NVIDIA Blog". 30 October 2018.
  4. "Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray "Shasta" Supercomputers". 30 October 2018.
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