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Last week, IBM announced, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), some impressive AI performance numbers from the Summit supercomputer. ORNL is hailing Summit as the world's "most powerful and smartest supercomputer" currently in existence, unseating the previous record-holder, a Chinese supercomputer named Sunway TaihuLight. Based on its self-published, mixed precision performance numbers, it is the new AI beast. Summit was designed with 4,608 of IBM's newest generation POWER9 Systems (which I've written previously on here and here) and 27,648 of NVIDIA's Volta GPUs. IBM says this is the first supercomputer to be designed expressly for the purpose of AI which wasn't an accident, by the way- it was by design.