In 2017 based on a common platform and IBM Power9 NVIDIA Volta will begin deployment of two supercomputers: Summit of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Sierra system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lawrence. Peak performance Summit will be 150-300 petaflops , Sierra systems - 100 petaflops. The modern record for peak performance belongs to the Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-2 from the Chinese National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, whose peak performance of 55 petaflops.
Total, the Americans hope to at least two-fold surpassing the capabilities of Tianhe-2 for a single system.
We think that the Chinese will be able to surprise, if not in 2017, then a year or two later. According to the latest plans of the company, in the second half of 2016 will appear on the GPU architecture Pascal, that carries the output Volta 2018. Based on new data, Volta will be ready for implementation on a year earlier. It should be clarified that the GPU Volta in 2017 is unlikely to be available as a consumer product.
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