Computer scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have set a high performance
computing speed record that opens the way to the scientific exploration of
complex planetary-scale systems.
In a paper to be published in May, the joint team will
announce a record-breaking simulation speed of 504 billion events per second on
LLNL’s Sequoia Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, dwarfing the previous record set in
2009 of 12.2 billion events per second.