Sequoia supercomputer
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The Sequoia supercomputer is a massively parallel IBM Blue Gene/Q system that was once among the world’s fastest supercomputers, used primarily for nuclear weapons simulations and advanced scientific research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Sequoia | 0 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IBM Blue Gene/Q system
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supercomputer ⓘ |
| basedOnArchitecture | Blue Gene/Q NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| becameOperationalYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | National Nuclear Security Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateAchievedTopRank | June 2012 ⓘ |
| energyEfficiencyFocus | Yes ⓘ |
| fileSystemType | Lustre parallel file system ⓘ |
| installationStartYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| interconnectType | 5D torus network ⓘ |
| linpackPerformancePFLOPS | about 16.3 ⓘ |
| linpackPerformanceTFLOPS | about 16,300 ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Livermore, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| locatedInFacility | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memoryPerNodeGB | 16 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership-class performance for nuclear simulation
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massively parallel architecture ⓘ |
| numberOfComputeNodes | 98,304 GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfProcessorCores | 1,572,864 GENERATED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
IBM Blue Gene/Q system software
NERFINISHED
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Linux ⓘ |
| owner | U.S. Department of Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Blue Gene family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerUsageMW | on the order of 6 ⓘ |
| predecessor | Dawn supercomputer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | nuclear weapons simulations ⓘ |
| processorClockSpeedGHz | 1.6 ⓘ |
| processorType | IBM PowerPC A2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| project | Advanced Simulation and Computing Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankedInTop500 | Yes ⓘ |
| roomFootprintSquareFeet | about 3,000 ⓘ |
| statusIn2012 | world’s fastest supercomputer ⓘ |
| successor | Sierra supercomputer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| systemVendor | IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theoreticalPeakPFLOPS | about 20.1 ⓘ |
| top500List | TOP500 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| top500PeakRank | 1 ⓘ |
| totalSystemMemoryTB | about 1,572 ⓘ |
| use |
advanced scientific research
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astrophysics simulations ⓘ climate and earth system modeling ⓘ hydrodynamics simulations ⓘ materials science simulations ⓘ national security applications ⓘ stockpile stewardship ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
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subject surface form:
High-Performance Computing Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory