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LLNL/RPI Supercomputer Smashes Simulation Speed Record

Posted by timothy on from the in-a-world-of-make-believe dept.

Lank writes "A team of computer scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have managed to coordinate nearly 2 million cores to achieve a blistering 504 billion events per second, over 40 times faster than the previous record. This result was achieved on Sequoia, a 120-rack IBM Blue Gene/Q normally used to run classified nuclear simulations. Note: I am a co-author of the coming paper to appear in PADS 2013."

3 of 79 comments (clear)

  1. rPi is different from RPI by stewsters · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was i the only one who thought for a second that this was about a raspberry pi cluster?

  2. can you put the paper online? by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Note: I am a co-author of the coming paper to appear in PADS 2013.

    I clicked hoping to read the paper, but the actual paper doesn't seem to be posted, only the abstract. The ACM copyright policy explicitly allows authors to "Post the Accepted Version of the Work on ... the Author's home page", so there is no legal barrier to the authors putting a PDF online. Doing so would of course increase readership of the paper, so ought to benefit everyone.

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    1. Re:can you put the paper online? by Lank · · Score: 5, Informative

      I didn't realize that it was acceptable to post it before the conference even happened. But you're right so here it is.

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