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Today’s  Information is Embargoed Embargo Date is Friday, Nov 14, 2014, 10 am EST

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U.S. to Build Two Flagship Supercomputers

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US to Build Two Flagship Supercomputers

Major Step Forward on the Path to Exascale

150-300 PFLOPS Peak Performance

IBM POWER9 CPU + NVIDIA Volta GPU

NVLink High Speed Interconnect

40 TFLOPS per Node, >3,400 Nodes

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SUMMIT SIERRA

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Just 4 nodes in Summit would make the Top500 list of

supercomputers today

Similar Power as Titan 5-10x Faster 1/5th the Size

150 PF = 3M Laptops

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Built for Grand Scientific Challenges

Fusion Energy Role of material disorder, statistics, and fluctuations in nanoscale materials and systems.

Combustion Combustion simulations to enable the next gen diesel/bio- fuels to burn more efficiently

Climate Change Study climate change adaptation and mitigation scenarios; realistically represent detailed features

Nuclear Energy Unprecedented high-fidelity radiation transport calculations for nuclear energy applications

Biofuels Search for renewable and more efficient energy sources

Astrophysics Radiation transport – critical to astrophysics, laser fusion, atmospheric dynamics, and medical imaging

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POWER is the

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150 PF CPU-only System would require half the power of Las Vegas

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IBM POWER CPU Most Powerful Serial Processor

NVIDIA NVLink Fastest CPU-GPU Interconnect

NVIDIA Volta GPU Most Powerful Parallel Processor

Accelerated Computing 5x Higher Energy Efficiency

80-200 GB/s

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VOLTA GPU Featuring NVLINK and Stacked Memory

NVLINK GPU high speed interconnect 80-200 GB/s

3D Stacked Memory 4x Higher Bandwidth (~1 TB/s) 3x Larger Capacity 4x More Energy Efficient per bit

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NVLink High-Speed GPU

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Leading the Way to Exascale Accelerated Systems on Path to Exascale

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Exascale Supercomputers Required to Address Future Scientific Challenges

Comprehensive Earth System Model at 1 km scale, enabling modeling of cloud convection and ocean eddies.

Coupled simulation of entire cells at molecular, genetic, chemical and biological levels.

First-principles simulation of combustion for new high-efficiency, low-emission engines.

Predictive calculations for thermonuclear and core-collapse supernovae, allowing confirmation of theoretical models.

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Summary

The U.S. is building the two flagship supercomputers, 3x faster  than  today’s  fastest  system. Higher performance supercomputers are necessary to enable new waves of scientific innovation and discovery, such as delivering safe fusion energy, combating climate change, finding new alternative energy, and enabling better, safer consumer products. IBM & NVIDIA are inventing new technologies that will enable exascale computing