Sierra supercomputer

E910070
GPU-accelerated supercomputer supercomputer

The Sierra supercomputer is a powerful GPU-accelerated system used primarily by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration for advanced simulations related to nuclear stockpile stewardship and national security.

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Surface form Occurrences
Sierra 0
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computing facilities 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf GPU-accelerated supercomputer ⓘ
supercomputer ⓘ
acceleratorType GPU ⓘ
agency National Nuclear Security Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ
architecture IBM Power Systems AC922 NERFINISHED ⓘ
city Livermore, California NERFINISHED ⓘ
commissioned 2018 ⓘ
cooling liquid cooling ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
CPUModel IBM Power9 NERFINISHED ⓘ
CPUPerNode 2 IBM Power9 processors ⓘ
designSimilarity Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ
energyEfficiencyList Green500 NERFINISHED ⓘ
fundingAgency U.S. Department of Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ
GPUModel NVIDIA Tesla V100 NERFINISHED ⓘ
GPUPerNode 4 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs ⓘ
installationStart 2017 ⓘ
interconnect Mellanox EDR InfiniBand NERFINISHED ⓘ
LINPACKPerformancePFLOPS 94.6 ⓘ
LINPACKPerformanceUnit petaflops ⓘ
location Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ
memoryType DDR4 ⓘ
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2 on GPUs) ⓘ
nodeCount ~4600 ⓘ
operator Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ
National Nuclear Security Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ
organization Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ
OS Linux NERFINISHED ⓘ
peakPerformancePFLOPS 125 ⓘ
peakPerformanceTFLOPS 125000 ⓘ
peakPerformanceUnit teraflops ⓘ
powerSource electrical grid ⓘ
primaryUse advanced physics simulations ⓘ
national security simulations ⓘ
nuclear stockpile stewardship simulations ⓘ
program Advanced Simulation and Computing Program NERFINISHED ⓘ
purpose support Stockpile Stewardship Program ⓘ
relatedSystem Summit supercomputer NERFINISHED ⓘ
securityDomain classified computing ⓘ
status operational ⓘ
systemType heterogeneous CPU-GPU system ⓘ
systemVendor IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ
NVIDIA NERFINISHED ⓘ
top500CountryRank fastest supercomputer in the United States (June 2018) ⓘ
top500List June 2018 ⓘ
top500Rank 2 ⓘ
useCase 3D weapon physics simulations ⓘ
hydrodynamics modeling ⓘ
materials science simulations ⓘ
uncertainty quantification ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

High‑Performance Computing Center → hostedSystem → Sierra supercomputer ⓘ
subject surface form: High-Performance Computing Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exascale Computing Project → supportsFacility → Sierra supercomputer ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computing facilities