New supercomputer to rank among the world’s fastest
A new supercomputer in Wyoming, U.S.A., will rank among the world’s 25 fastest and help study phenomena including climate change, severe weather, wildfires and solar flares. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray EX supercomputer will theoretically be able to perform almost 20 quadrillion calculations per second – 3.5 times faster than the existing machine named Cheyenne. That power will enable some of the most sophisticated simulations yet of large-scale natural and human-influenced events.
It “will support basic research in ways that will lead to more detailed and useful predictions of the world around us, thereby helping to make our society more resilient to increasingly costly disasters and contributing to improved human health and well-being,” centre Director Everette Joseph said in a news release.
More than 4,000 people from hundreds of universities and other institutions worldwide have used the supercomputing centre since it opened in 2012.
The facility’s current supercomputer, named Cheyenne, is over three times faster than its predecessor, which was named Yellowstone.
A contest among Wyoming schoolchildren will decide the new supercomputer’s name.
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