June 18, 2018 the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced the top speeds of its Summit supercomputing machine. The Summit's theoretical peak speed is 200 petaflops, or 200,000 teraflops.
To put that in human terms, approximately 6.3 billion people would all have to make a calculation at the same time, every second, for an entire year, to match what Summit can do in just one second. Another way to see it, if you want to go toe-to-toe with Summit yourself, settle in. You'll be making a calculation every single second for the next 6.3 billion years.
The Oak Ridge team says the system is the first supercomputer made bespoke for use in artificial intelligence applications.
The US Government is reportedly already talking to Manufacturers about developing several exaflop supercomputers, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry said yesterday that they want to deliver the first by 2021.
To put that in human terms, approximately 6.3 billion people would all have to make a calculation at the same time, every second, for an entire year, to match what Summit can do in just one second. Another way to see it, if you want to go toe-to-toe with Summit yourself, settle in. You'll be making a calculation every single second for the next 6.3 billion years.
The Oak Ridge team says the system is the first supercomputer made bespoke for use in artificial intelligence applications.
The US Government is reportedly already talking to Manufacturers about developing several exaflop supercomputers, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry said yesterday that they want to deliver the first by 2021.
