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| Argonne Leadership Computing Facility |
| World's Fastest Supercomputer for Open Science |
| Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual TOP500 List of the world's fastest computers (figure 5). The TOP500 List was announced in June during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. |
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| Figure 5. Intrepid, the Blue Gene/P system at the ALCF, ranked as the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, and also placed third fastest overall. |
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| The Blue Gene/P--known as Intrepid and located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)--also ranked third fastest overall. Both rankings represent the first time an Argonne-based supercomputing system has ranked in the top five of the industry's definitive list of supercomputers. |
| The Blue Gene/P has a peak performance of 557 teraflops (in other words, 557 trillion calculations per second). Intrepid achieved a speed of 450.3 teraflops on the Linpack application used to measure speed for the TOP500 rankings. |
| "Intrepid's speed and power reflect the DOE Office of Science's determined effort to provide the research and development community with powerful tools that enable them to make innovative and high-impact science and engineering breakthroughs," said Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for computing, environmental and life sciences at Argonne. |
"The ALCF and Intrepid have only just begun to have a meaningful impact on scientific research," Stevens continued. "In addition, continued expansion of ALCF computing resources will not only be instrumental in addressing critical scientific research challenges related to climate change, energy, health and our basic understanding of the world, but in the future will transform and advance how science research and engineering experiments are conducted and attract social sciences research projects as well."
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