The potential for our understanding of the universe has made a giant leap forward after the border, a supercomputer based in the National Laboratory of Oak Ridge (ORNL), created a simulation of the universe on a scale never before achieved.
Frontier used a software platform called Hardware/Code of Accelerate Hardware/Hybrid Cosmology (HACC) as part of Exasky, a project that was part of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) $ 1.8 billion Exascale computing project – The largest software R&D initiative backed by the DOE.
Low ExascoIt was required that the scientific applications spread up to 50 times faster than the previous reference points, but Frontier and HACC ran rapidly before expectations, running almost 300 times faster than similar simulations of the Titan Moon of Saturn. The DOE/HACC team had spent seven years since the first simulation improved the capacities in Exascale Supercomputers as Frontier.
This allowed hydrodynamic cosmology simulations, a much more computational computer model that incorporates principles such as the expansion of the universe and the influence of dark matter. The previous models only incorporated seriousness, gas or plasma measures.
The power of computing exascales
The simulation, which was carried out in November 2024, used around 9,000 of Frontier’s computer nodes, all equipped with AMD Instinct MI250X graphics cards.
Frontier is the secondFaster supercomputer in the world and can reach 1.4 Exafultos of power. The performance of the supercomputers is measured in floating point operations per second (flops), where a floating point operation is a mathematical calculation.
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Anything capable of more than 999 Petaflops (0.9 Exafultos) is known as a “exascale” supercomputer. The only other machine more powerful than the border is The Captain – which can reach 1.7 Exafultos de Power.
Beyond simulating the universe, Frontier has been used in other crucial investigations. In April 2023, scientists built the simple E3SM cloud resolution atmosphere model (Scream), a program That simulated a whole year of global climatic data at a resolution of just over 3 km. One of the most complex climatic models ever calculated, is now an cornerstone in the analysis of complex interactions between the atmosphere, the oceans and the earth to improve climatic predictions and collect data with greater fidelity about climate change.
In materials, Frontier has allowed designers to develop new substrates and geometries for improved property substances, which makes them stronger, lighter and corrosion test. His Computer capabilities of Exascale have allowed researchers to model chemical interaction at the molecular scale to predict the behavior of the material. The supercomputer has also been essential When finding new materials for energy storage, transport, manufacturing and nuclear medicine.
However, scientists are particularly excited about how exascale computer science can overcome artificial intelligence (AI). The speed of these machines allows programmers to be the programmers and analyze large data sets quickly, especially in tasks such as faster language models or application of supercomputers to climatic models and prediction of climate change.
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