At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say the creation of a supercomputer with a record date performance. In the magazine, which is published MIT, stated, that the performance of the machine set up in the United States is 200 petaflops. When this is added, that the development of technologies used, until the end of the year, American engineers and scientists will create a supercomputer capacity of about a thousand petaflops (one eksaflops).
For reference: flops is a non-SI units of computing machines. The word is composed of the first letters of the English words «FLoating-point Operations Per Second» (flops). Petaflops - 10 15-degree flops, eksaflops 1000 petaflops, respectively 10 in 18-degree flops.
200 petaflops - 200 quadrillion operations per second.
In this way, few Americans are ahead in the development of technology supercomputers its main competitors in this field - Chinese. Earlier in the PRC promised, that the supercomputer (SK) to "a few hundred flops" will be presented by the end of 2018 of the year.
New IC created by the US Department of Energy national laboratory specialists in Tennessee. To give his brainchild developers decided to "Summit". Performance "summit" more than two times higher than the performance of the previous record holder - Chinese IC Sunway Taihu Light (93 petaflops).
The American magazine reported dimensions supercomputer "Summit": weighs more, than passenger airliner, It occupies an area of space in 2 tennis courts.
It can be stated, that in the top five most powerful computers today are made machines from the United States (two), China, Switzerland and Japan. Russian Machines is not listed.
What can now be used "Summit" Americans? At least for a substantial increase in the accuracy of weather forecasts. It can also be used as the calculated machine to control a plurality of satellites, modeling and control of the use of modern weapons, superfast data analysis, from satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles. Application area – latissimus.
