What is the Summit (supercomputer)?
                     What is the Summit 
(supercomputer)?
Summit
• Summit or OLCF-4 is a supercomputer developed by IBM and 
is the fastest supercomputer in the world. It is situated at the 
Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA.
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History
• The US Department of Energy awarded the contract to build a 
supercomputer to IBM, NVidia and Mellanox for a whopping 
price of $325 million, to make the world’s most powerful 
supercomputer.
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By numbers
• Summit can perform 200 quadrillion calculations per second, 
has a storage capacity of 250 petabytes and is made up of 
9216 IBM Power9 CPUs and 27,648 NVidia Tesla GPUs.
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Mission
• The mission was to develop a supercomputer faster than its 
predecessor Titan, which took four years and involved 
breaking countless technology barriers for a groundbreaking 
development.
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Power
• Summit has the power about million times that of a laptop 
and is powered by deep learning and Artificial Intelligence. It 
has an incredible speed and can create millions of models and 
simulations for researchers to work on.
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Uses
• Summit is being used to solve some of the most difficult and 
complex problems in science related to energy, human health 
and Artificial Intelligence. It has boosted the United States’ 
economic competitiveness.
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Facts
• The supercomputer occupies 5,600 sq.ft. of space, which is 
equal to that of two tennis courts. It weighs over 340 tons, 
more than that of a commercial aircraft.
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Cancer research
• Summit is being used for advancement in cancer research 
using deep learning which is working on population-based 
cancer surveillance and clinical trials, to find a cure for cancer.
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More research
• Other research work being done with the help of Summit are 
Plasma fusion with XGC, deep learning for human systems 
biology, combustion with raptor and astrophysics with flash.
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