In terms of brain simulation, the challenges are even bigger: The world's fourth most
powerful supercomputer took 40 minutes to model one second of brain activity in a simulated network containing 1.73 billion neurons and over a trillion synapses, yet this represents just one per cent of neuronal networks in the human brain.
Not exact matches
Soil samples are run through
powerful machines to have their microbes genetically sequenced, drones are flying overhead
taking hyperspectral images of the crops, and soon
supercomputers will be crunching the massive volumes of data collected.
The XGC code ran for three days and
took 90 percent of the capacity of Titan at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), which is the nation's most
powerful supercomputer for open science and capable of performing up to 27 million billion (1015) operations per second.
In addition to access, XSEDE also provides a pool of experts through the Extended Collaborative Support Services (ECSS) effort to help researchers
take full advantage of some of the world's most
powerful supercomputers.
The battle for supercomputing supremacy
took a new twist on Tuesday when Japanese manufacturer NEC launched a new generation of computational building blocks that could be laced together to form the most
powerful supercomputer in the world.
Other
powerful computers and techniques are
taking aim at biological problems too:
supercomputers are being wielded in a genomic fight against cancer.
The latest TOP500 list of the world's most
powerful supercomputers was published during the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC» 17), which
took place in Frankfurt from 19th till 22nd June.
Jun 22, 2017: The latest TOP500 list of the world's most
powerful supercomputers was published during the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC» 17), which
took place in Frankfurt from 19th till 22nd June.
These are the models that
take weeks to run on the world's most
powerful supercomputers.
They've used strong encryption which, with a reasonably long and non-obvious passphrase, isn't crackable in practice (brute force methods even using the most
powerful supercomputers on the planet would
take lifetimes, at least).
Just this past week, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new Titan
supercomputer was named the world's most
powerful by the Top500 list that ranks major computing systems around the world, and now, it has also made it near the top of another ranking of
supercomputers, the Green500 list, which
takes the Top500 list and ranks those same machines in order of energy efficiency.
hardware.slashdot.org - bigwophh writes from a report via HotHardware: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
took to the stage at GTC today to unveil a number of GPU - powered innovations for machine learning, including a new AI
supercomputer and an updated version of the company's
powerful Tesla V100 GPU that now sports a hefty 32 GB o...