Technology advances day by day and now we can find computers so powerful that they support a huge world of processes, etc. And it is necessary both for the government and for world companies and science applications as well, so what are these computers and why are they so powerful?
Features of the most powerful computers that we can know
▸Summit
The King, this was one of the last to arrive in fact, but it did not take long to get to the front of the ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, it has gone in a few months from offering a performance of 122.3 petaflops to surpassing the barrier of 143 , 5 petaflops. Summit is powered by IBM Power9 processors and Nvidia GV100 GPUs. And what makes it so powerful? Well many cores. In this case, Summit offers scientists no less than 2,282,544. But there is more. Those who have the opportunity to use it on a daily basis ensure that the facility has sufficient potential to reach the 187 petaflop threshold.
▸Piz Daint
The second European supercomputer is found in Lugano, Switzerland. Piz Daint debuted in 2012 on the to 500 list in a somewhat lagging position, 114. Since then it has done nothing but improve. Installed in the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, it has taken less than a decade to become the most powerful computer found on the old continent, offering a computing capacity of 21.2 petaflops.
▸Sequoia
Sequoia is based on the IBM and Q infrastructure and can deliver 17.17 petaflops using 1,572 cores and in overclocking it can increase its performance up to 20.13 petaflops. This supercomputer installed in the US Department of Energy was considered the most powerful in the world in 2012 and since then, it has always been in the top ten.
▸Trinity
With Trinity we overcome the barrier of 20 petaflops (in this case, 20.2). Based on the Cray XC40 architecture, it has Intel Xeon Phi processors, like many of those that have been installed in the United States in recent years, it depends directly on its energy department.
▸Sunway TaihuLight
The second great Chinese computer in this ranking reached the world number 1 a few years ago, but in recent months it has lost positions. This one is capable of delivering 93 petaflops with virtually no effort. One of its differential characteristics is that it does not use acceleration chips, entrusting all its processing capacity to 40,960 Sunway 26010 processors, each with 260 cores.
