Introducing the Sierra supercomputer

Introducing Sierra, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s next-generation supercomputer. The IBM-built advanced technology high-performance system is projected to provide four to six times the sustained performance and be at least seven times more powerful than LLNL’s current most advanced system, Sequoia, with a 125 petaFLOP/s peak. At approximately 11 megawatts, Sierra will also be about five times more power efficient than Sequoia. By combining two types of processor chips-IBM’s Power 9 processors and NVIDIA’s Volta graphics processing units (GPUs)-Sierra is designed for more efficient overall operations and is expected to be a promising architecture for extreme-scale computing.
The new system is part of the CORAL (Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Livermore) procurement, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between ORNL, Argonne, and LLNL that culminated in three pre-exascale high performance computing (HPC) systems to be delivered in the 2017 timeframe. CORAL was established by DOE to leverage supercomputing investments, to streamline procurement processes, and to reduce the costs to develop supercomputers.
Sierra will provide computational resources that are essential for nuclear weapon scientists to fulfill the National Nuclear Security Administration’s stockpile stewardship mission through simulation in lieu of underground testing.
The design for Sierra uses IBM Power architecture processors connected by NVLink to NVIDIA Volta graphics processing units (GPUs). NVLink is an interconnect bus that provides higher performance than the traditional Peripheral Component Interconnect Express for attaching hardware devices in a computer, allowing coherent direct access to GPU and memory. The machine will be connected with a Mellanox InfiniBand network using a fat-tree topology-a versatile network design that can be tailored to work efficiently with the bandwidth available.
It is expected to be fully installed and accepted in Fiscal Year 2018.

[@kevp9601]

I LOVE SUPERCOMPUTERS SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

[@HuebietheGuru]

Great partnership. The compute power is still incredible. Can't wait to get this huge monster runnin' :-)

[@lteht6919]

Thanks for the great videos!

[@tehdanny682]

From the description "Sierra will provide computational resources that are essential for nuclear weapon scientists..." When I first heard about this computer in sounded great. Nooot anymore.

[@duncanmurphy8085]

This is essential because US citizens don't like us testing nuclear weapons, but also want the protection provided by them. Since nuclear testing stopped in 1991 the every nuclear power has not had a method to test the longevity of their nuclear systems, which were not designed for this kind of lifespan. We need to calculate how the safety of the systems changes over time, we need to learn how aging and corroding plutonium affects the warhead. Ironically these shady supercomputers are the most peaceful way the US feels safe.

[@-Duyuc-CA-N]

Ah... It's so good seeing the IBM logo, good memories

[@gore2874]

imagine mining bitcoin with that beast

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Nice.

[@belowme4927]

THEY HAD "THE HAMMER". THEN THE "7 DWARFS". THIS IS LEFTOVER "7 DWARFS"

[@davidmthekidd]

Yeah but can it run Crysis.

[@sheakyll9600]

yah mon, low-med at 900p ;)

[@ShtormZZ]

How much Mh/s?

[@edsr164]

I wish my country builds supercomputers

[@kylleven]

What is the cinebench score?

[@pattikillem666]

Can it run PUBG?

[@willboxowo8782]

Veganer in der Steinzeit! R.I.P
r/wooosh

[@Lietuvishka_slowed]

But... can it run Minesweeper?

[@moistschmeckles400]

You may be able to run it on 480p at a solid 20fps if you're lucky

[@Jermo7899]

I’d love to play cod on this sucker

[@NazzStar]

what about D* Wave quantum computer systems that run 2040 qubits

[@Zigr-Inc]

great question

[@yakr6265]

Out of the libraries come the killers.
Mothers stand despondently waiting
Hugging their children and searching the sky,
Looking for the latest inventions of professors.
Engineers sit hunched over their drawings;
One figure wrong, and the enemy’s cities remain undestroyed.
- 1940 by Bertold Brecht

[@dylanwulf8438]

MSFS max settings 18 fps

[@eafindme]

She said is 125PFLOPS, if a 1080Ti of 10TFLOPS can do mining ETH at 45MH/s, it can do 12500 times better, or 562GH/s, or 0.226% of global hashrate, lol.

[@sneakyFN]

Yeah , but can I run fortnite on high settings ?

[@nadia4088]

Ummm no they didn't. Do your homework prior making that comment. Thank you

[@protori]

Mz. Nadia CarTeR how dense ARE you?

[@sheakyll9600]

Buys Old School Runescape bot script, ruins economy overnight

[@nolanfahey8191]

still cant run No Man's Sky, No mans PC can run that.

[@HectorLopez-do3st]

Nolan Fahey Nice one