786 432 IBM MIRA supercomputer cores begin modeling early Universe



    Engineers from the Argonne National Laboratory at the US Department of Energy have commissioned a new IBM MIRA supercomputer. According to the Top500 June ranking , MIRA is currently the fifth-largest supercomputer in the world.

    The average MIRA performance according to the Linpack test is 8.586 petaflops, the peak - 10.066 petaflops. The machine, created by IBM, is based on the Blue Gene / Q architecture. 48 computing clusters are equipped with PowerPC A2 processors (786432 cores in total). A supercomputer runs under the Linux operating system (RHEL / CentOS). Power of the car is 3945 kW.

    Using the MIRA supercomputer, researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory simulate processes in the universe. The computing power of the machine allows you to track the interaction of trillions of particles during the process of expansion of the substance. Scientists want to create a model of the early Universe and observe its development from the moment of the Big Bang to the present (13.7 billion years later). What research will lead to, we hope to find out soon! :)


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