Perlmutter (supercomputer)

Perlmutter
ActiveFrom 2021
SponsorsUnited States Department of Energy
OperatorsLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LocationNational Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
ArchitectureNvidia A100 GPUs, AMD Milan CPU
Custom Linux-based kernel
Memory256 GiB/node
Storage35 PB, 5 TB/s Shared all-flash Lustre Filesystem
PurposeNuclear fusion simulations, climate projections, material and biological research and computational cosmology
Websitewww.nersc.gov/systems/perlmutter/

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. It is being built by Cray and is based on their Shasta architecture which utilizes Zen 3 based AMD Epyc CPUs ("Milan") and Nvidia Ampere GPUs . Its intended use-cases are nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections, and material and biological research. Phase 1, completed May 27, 2022, reached 70.9 PFLOPS of processing power.

It is named in honor of Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter.

References

  1. ↑ "NERSC finalizes contract for Perlmutter supercomputer". Datacenter Dynamics. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
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  4. ↑ "GPUs to Power Perlmutter, NERSC's New Supercomputer - NVIDIA Blog". 30 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Berkeley Lab Deploys Next-Gen Supercomputer, Perlmutter, Bolstering U.S. Scientific Research". NeRSC. 27 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "Perlmutter". NeRSC.