Supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world

The United States, for the first time in 12 years, managed to break into first place in the ranking of supercomputers. And this is against the background of a decrease in the number of the most powerful computers located in the USA, against the background of the world TOP-500 rating.

A supercomputer is a symbiosis of a thousand powerful computers with dozens of cores in each device.

The US championship in the ranking was announced on 25 on June 2018 of the year, in Frankfurt (Germany). The American platform Summit (Top), with a performance of 200 petaflops per second, took first place. The supercomputer contains 4400 nodes, each of which is based on six NVIDIA Tesla V100 graphics crystals and two PowerNUMX 22-core processors.

Supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world

Also, the server has 512 gigabytes of DDR4 RAM and 96 GB of memory with increased bandwidth. The servers are connected to switches that transmit data at a speed of 100 gigabits per second. The most powerful computer in the world does not run on the Windows operating platform at all. Manufacturers have entrusted the "Top" to the Linux platform - Red Hat Enterprise 7.4. The supercomputer consumes 13 megawatts per hour. The platform is cooled with water. Every second, 250 liters of water are used to remove heat.

Second place in the ranking went to the Chinese. It is noteworthy that the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer (Sunny Way) has 2 times less performance. Total 93 petaflops per second. China had no chance of winning the battle.

The third place was also taken by the Americans with the Sierra platform. The computer is built similarly to the leader. The same IBM Power9 processors and NVIDIA Tesla V100 graphics cards. Performance - 71,6 Petaflops.

Note that for the construction of the most powerful computers in the world, both Americans and Chinese use Intel and NVIDIA electronics. No AMD chips are out of the question. Be it Japanese, Chinese or American platform. The conclusion begs one.