Current Events #4

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                               Digital Design

            The article "The race for the fastest supercomputer"  by Matt Leonard it discusses  about the latest list of the 500 most fastest supercomputer released this month, and how top spot is held by the Sunway TaihuLight in China’s National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. As the system produced by the center is the fastest that has ever been created, maybe because the processors used are a Chinese developed processor known as Shen Wei rather then using commonly know processors such as Intel.  In order to reclaim their glory and be put at the top of the list the Department of Energy's then-Secretary Spencer Abraham announced the U.S. would build the world's fastest computer and awarded Oak Ridge National Lab a $25 million grant to start development. The Oak Ridge Summit and Lawrence Livermore Sierra supercomputers are expected to go online before the June Top500 list is released, and they’ll be running both the IBM Power 9 and Nvidia Volta V100 processors. Argonne National Lab is expected to get an exascale system in 2021, too. So the race for the world's fastest Supercomputer had begun between the U.S and other countries. And I myself look forward to what they come up with. The main reason for that is that with the creation of a new and more powerful supercomputer so much can be made that will better our future and help us solve our problems. So that the future will be filled with more new and more advanced technology. This is why I look forward toward seeing the development of the new world's fastest Supercomputer.
ORIGINAL SOURCE OF INFORMATION: https://gcn.com/articles/2017/11/29/top500-supercomputers.aspx
 
                                             

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