Perlmutter (supercomputer)
Perlmutter (also known as NERSC-9) is a supercomputer scheduled to be delivered to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center of the United States Department of Energy in late 2020 as the successor to Cori.[2] It is being built by Cray and is based on their upcoming Shasta architecture which is planned to utilize Zen 3 based AMD Epyc CPUs ("Milan") and next-generation Nvidia Tesla GPUs.[3] Its intended use-cases are nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections and material and biological research.[4] It is predicted to reach approximately 100 PFLOPS of processing power[5]
| Active | From 2021 |
|---|---|
| Sponsors | United States Department of Energy |
| Operators | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Location | National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
| Architecture | NVIDIA A100 GPUs, AMD Milan CPU |
| Operating system | Custom Linux-based kernel |
| Memory | 256 GiB/node |
| Storage | 35 PB, 5 TB/s Shared all-flash Lustre Filesystem[1] |
| Purpose | nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections, material and biological research, and computational Cosmology |
| Web site | www |
It is named in honour of Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter.[2]
References
- "NERSC finalizes contract for Perlmutter supercomputer". Datacenter Dynamics. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- Moss, Sebastian. "Lawrence Berkeley to install Perlmutter supercomputer featuring Cray's Shasta system". Data Centre Dynamics. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- "Nersc Perlmutter: 100-Petaflops-Supercomputer nutzt AMDs Epyc-CPUs - Golem.de".
- "GPUs to Power Perlmutter, NERSC's New Supercomputer - NVIDIA Blog". 30 October 2018.
- "Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray "Shasta" Supercomputers". 30 October 2018.
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