• to unveil – a dezvalui

• less – mai putin

• Holder – titular, detinator
• Area – domeniu
• Achieve – a obtine, realiza
• Cooling – racire
• To defeat – a invinge
• To aim – a urmari( un obiectiv)
The Competition For The Best Computer In The
World Is Very Important For The Great Powers In
Technology. After A Long Period Of Time When The
Chinese Were In The First Position, It Was Time For
The Americans To Rank First In The Ranking.
The Department of Energy of the
United States Government
unveiled the fastest
supercomputer in the world. This
is called Summit and represents
the creation of IBM. When it
works at full power, the little one
is capable of a calculation of 200
petaflops. This value translates
into 200 quadrillions of
calculations in one second.
With the detailed performance above, the IBM Summit
has nothing to eat from the former supercomputer
leader. The previous record was set by Sunway TaihuLight
and was 93 petaflops, less than half of the Americans'
creation. About five years ago, the record holder in this
area was Titan, one of the most popular
supercomputers. Compared to the Summit, Titan had a
seven times lower power. Titan is still used at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
As a reference, the Summit can solve in one hour a
task that would take 30 years to a traditional
desktop. To achieve such performance, the newest
supercomputer uses simultaneously 4608 servers
installed in a hall of two tennis courts. These servers
hide 900 IBM Power9 processors each with 22
cores. The calculation power is amplified by 27,000
Tesla V100 GPUs. Cooling is done exclusively with
water, about 15,000 liters per minute. Energy
consumption is so high that it could feed 8100
The new computer was not only created to defeat China's supremacy in
the supercomputer field. The fastest supercomputer in the world aims to
perform simulations on the Artificial Intelligence side and neural networks
with applicability in health, physics, climate evolution and beyond.