| Active | From 2021 |
|---|---|
| Sponsors | United States Department of Energy |
| Operators | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Location | National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
| Architecture | Nvidia A100 GPUs, AMD Milan CPU |
| Operating system | Custom Linux-based kernel |
| Memory | 256 GiB/node |
| Storage | 35 PB, 5 TB/s Shared all-flash Lustre Filesystem[1] |
| Purpose | Nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections, material and biological research and computational cosmology |
| Website | www |
Perlmutter (also known as NERSC-9) is a supercomputer delivered to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center of the United States Department of Energy as the successor to Cori.[2] It is being built by Cray and is based on their Shasta architecture which utilizes Zen 3 based AMD Epyc CPUs ("Milan") and Nvidia Tesla GPUs. Its intended use-cases are nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections, and material and biological research.[3] Phase 1, completed May 27, 2022,[4] reached 70.9 PFLOPS of processing power.[5]
It is named in honor of Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "NERSC finalizes contract for Perlmutter supercomputer". Datacenter Dynamics. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ^ a b Moss, Sebastian. "Lawrence Berkeley to install Perlmutter supercomputer featuring Cray's Shasta system". Data Centre Dynamics. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ "GPUs to Power Perlmutter, NERSC's New Supercomputer - NVIDIA Blog". 30 October 2018.
- ^ "Berkeley Lab Deploys Next-Gen Supercomputer, Perlmutter, Bolstering U.S. Scientific Research". NeRSC. 27 May 2022.
- ^ "Perlmutter". NeRSC.