In America, will create a supercomputer

Nuclear US ordered a "computing machine" that can overtake the power of the Chinese machine Tianhe-2 — the champion of supercomputers. The national authority for nuclear security (NNSA) contracted with Cray the contract on creation of powerful computing complex with a total cost of $174 million It will become one of the largest and most expensive projects in the history of Cray.

The project to build a supercomputer next-generation Cray XC got the name Trinity. It is expected that the system will provide "multipication productivity", that is able to perform quadrillions of floating point operations per second. Now the world's most powerful supercomputer is the Chinese complex Tianhe-2: the performance in Linpack reaches 33,86 of petaflops, and peak performance is 54,9 of petaflops.

The basis of the Trinity will fall server processors Intel Xeon generation Haswell processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors Knights Landing.


Computing system will complement the data store Cray Sonexion with a total capacity of 82 petabytes, providing the bandwidth up to 1.7 TB/s. it is Expected that Trinity will be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.



The project will be implemented in several phases. The system is planned to be used, in particular for studies related to the development and possession of nuclear weapons. Access to computing complex will be three NNSA laboratories — Los Alamos national laboratory, Sandia national laboratory and Lawrence Livermore national laboratory behalf of the Lawrence. Trinity will be located in the first of them.

The putting the complex into operation will be implemented in stages in late 2015 and in 2016.

Source: globalscience.ru