Perlmutter (supercomputer)
| Active | From 2021 |
|---|---|
| Sponsors | United States Department of Energy |
| Operators | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Location | National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
| Architecture | Nvidia A100 GPUs, AMD Milan CPU |
| Operating system | Custom Linux-based kernel |
| Memory | 256 GiB/node |
| Storage | 35 PB, 5 TB/s Shared all-flash Lustre Filesystem[1] |
| Purpose | Nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections, material and biological research and computational cosmology |
| Website | www |
Perlmutter (also known as NERSC-9) is a supercomputer scheduled to be delivered to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center of the United States Department of Energy in late 2020 as the successor to Cori.[2] 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. Its intended use-cases are nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections and material and biological research.[3] Phase 1 is predicted to reach 64 PFLOPS of processing power (3.9 PFLOPS CPU, 59.9 PFLOPS GPU) [4]
It is named in honour of Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter.[2]
References
- ^ "NERSC finalizes contract for Perlmutter supercomputer". Datacenter Dynamics. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ^ a b Moss, Sebastian. "Lawrence Berkeley to install Perlmutter supercomputer featuring Cray's Shasta system". Data Centre Dynamics. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ "GPUs to Power Perlmutter, NERSC's New Supercomputer - NVIDIA Blog". 30 October 2018.
- ^ "Perlmutter Phase 1 overview". 12 March 2022.[dead link]
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