Often, when we talk about superordenrs, Dimensioning your power is very complex. There is talk of Exaflops, of operations per second, of microprocessors … Perhaps the arrival of the Superordinate the captain, officially launched at the National Livermore (LNNL) National Laboratory in California this week, is an opportunity to change this.
In 1998, the most powerful supercomputer on the planet was the Blue Pacific, also located in the LNNL. To give us an idea, the captain is equivalent to 775,000 Blue Pacifics. This powerful is this new superoring.
The captain cost $ 600 million to build it and will be in charge of several sensitive and classified tasksincluding the security of the American arsenal of nuclear weapons in the absence of underground evidence, according to LNNL representatives. This was prohibited in 1992.
The investigation is will mainly focus on national security, including the discovery of materialshigh energy physics, nuclear data and weapons design, as well as other classified tasks.
The captain became the fastest computer in the world when it entered full functioning last year, with a score of 1,742 Exaflops in the Benchmark High-Performance Linpack (HPL). It is a test that is used to judge supercomputing speeds worldwide. This converts to The captain on the third computer that reaches computing speeds of exaescala. It has a maximum yield of 2,746 Exaflops.
The yield is measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS)where a floating point operation is a mathematical calculation. Although comparisons between similar computers are complicated, the best laptops usually offer several hundred power gigaflops (1 gigaflop is equivalent to one billion operations per second), while an Exaflop is equivalent to 1 Trillón de Flops.
The next fastest supercomputer in the world is currently the Frontier Superorder of the National Laboratory of Oak Ridge in Illinois. That supercomputer has reached a standard yield of 1,353 EXAFLOPS with a peak of 2,056 EXAFLOPS. According to Next Platform, the captain is equipped with just over 11 million processing and graphics nuclei distributed in 44,544 accelerated processing units, AMD CDNA3 graphics cards and processing memory. Each uses 128 gigabytes of great bandwidth (a special type of processing memory that reaches high speeds while consume less energy) shared between the chiplets of the Central Processing Unit and the Graphic Processing Unit.
The Captain He was commissioned by the Coral-2 Program of the US Department of Energy. To replace the Sierra Supercomputer, implemented in 2018. This supercomputer is still in use and occupies the 14th position in the last Top500 classification.