The Energy Department, IBM and NVIDIA yesterday announced plans to establish Centers of Excellence for Supercomputing at Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge national labs, according to a press release. The announcement was made at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt. The collaborations support IBM’s supercomputing contract with DOE, and will “enable advanced, large-scale scientific and engineering applications both for supporting DOE missions, and for the Summit and Sierra supercomputer systems to be delivered respectively to Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore in 2017 and to be operational in 2018,” the release states.
Summit and Sierra will use IBM’s advanced processors with next-gen NVIDIA accelerators and the high-speed processor interconnect to minimize “data in motion,” to help optimize problem solving and cut time needed to find a solution while reducing overall energy consumption. "Application code innovation is a vital component of making sure our facilities are prepared to take advantage of the performance of the new supercomputers," said Michel McCoy, Program Director for Advanced Simulation and Computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "By partnering with IBM and NVIDIA, the Centers of Excellence bring together the people who know the science, the people who know the code, and the people who know the machines – ensuring we are innovating across the board so that Sierra and Summit will be primed to achieve their missions for national security and scientific advancement as soon as they’re delivered."
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