Researchers have switched on the world's fastest AI supercomputer

Researchers have switched on the world's fastest AI supercomputer, delivering nearly four exaFLOPS of AI performance for more than 7,000 researchers. Perlmutter, officially dedicated today at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Centre (NERSC), is a supercomputer that will help piece together a 3D map of the universe, probe subatomic interactions for green energy sources, and much more. The supercomputer is made up of 6,159 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, which makes it the largest A100-powered system in the world. Over two dozen applications are getting ready to be among the first to use the system based at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. In one project, the supercomputer will help assemble the largest 3D map of the visible universe to date.