Sequoia supercomputer

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The Sequoia supercomputer is a massively parallel IBM Blue Gene/Q system that was once among the world’s fastest supercomputers, used primarily for nuclear weapons simulations and advanced scientific research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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instanceOf IBM Blue Gene/Q system
supercomputer
basedOnArchitecture Blue Gene/Q
becameOperationalYear 2012
commissionedBy National Nuclear Security Administration
countryOfOrigin United States
dateAchievedTopRank June 2012
energyEfficiencyFocus Yes
fileSystemType Lustre parallel file system
installationStartYear 2011
interconnectType 5D torus network
linpackPerformancePFLOPS about 16.3
linpackPerformanceTFLOPS about 16,300
locatedInCity Livermore, California
linked to: Livermore
locatedInCountry United States
locatedInFacility Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
manufacturer IBM
memoryPerNodeGB 16
notableFor leadership-class performance for nuclear simulation
massively parallel architecture
numberOfComputeNodes 98,304
numberOfProcessorCores 1,572,864
operatedBy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
operatingSystem IBM Blue Gene/Q system software
Linux
owner U.S. Department of Energy
partOfSeries Blue Gene family
powerUsageMW on the order of 6
predecessor Dawn supercomputer
primaryUse nuclear weapons simulations
processorClockSpeedGHz 1.6
processorType IBM PowerPC A2
project Advanced Simulation and Computing Program
rankedInTop500 Yes
roomFootprintSquareFeet about 3,000
statusIn2012 world’s fastest supercomputer
successor Sierra supercomputer
systemVendor IBM
theoreticalPeakPFLOPS about 20.1
top500List TOP500
linked to: TOP500 list
top500PeakRank 1
totalSystemMemoryTB about 1,572
use advanced scientific research
astrophysics simulations
climate and earth system modeling
hydrodynamics simulations
materials science simulations
national security applications
stockpile stewardship

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High-Performance Computing Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hostedSystem Sequoia supercomputer
BlueGene/Q usedIn Sequoia supercomputer
subject linked to: BlueGene/Q supercomputer
BlueGene/Q usedIn Mira supercomputer
subject linked to: BlueGene/Q supercomputer
linked to: Sequoia supercomputer
BlueGene/Q usedIn Vulcan supercomputer
subject linked to: BlueGene/Q supercomputer
linked to: Sequoia supercomputer
BlueGene/Q locationOfMajorInstallation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sequoia system
subject linked to: BlueGene/Q supercomputer
linked to: Sequoia supercomputer