High Performance Computing (Hpc) And The Sequoia Supercomputer At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Kimberly Cupps, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has fielded high performance computers to solve problems of national interest for over 50 years. Sequoia is an IBM Blue Gene Q supercomputer capable of 20 petaFLOPs of peak performance sited at LLNL. It is the third fastest computer in the world and is built upon massive numbers of low power cores. In this talk I will touch on HPC applications at LLNL and key components of Sequoia. I will also comment on future challenges facing Exascale computers, expected in the early 2020s.