MP2 Current Events 3

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Brandon Wilson
MP2 Current Events 3
10/29/18

    This article was about Livermore's powerful new supercomputer, Sierra. It can perform 125 quadrillion caculations per second! It has incredible memory, with enough storage to gold every written work of humanity, in all languages, twice. It was created with the collaboration between Livermore, Oak Ridge and Argonne. There were many problems when making it, but the major one was money. This was because the surging cost of memory, tied to the global demand for smart phones. Sierra was designed to support the nation's three nuclear security laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Supercomputers like this could "aid in science, medicine, energy and climate change." In addition, "its simulations allow scientists to pursue research in genetics, cell structure and atmospheric fluctuations that previously impractical or impossible."


In my opinion, this super computer will allow for many things to happen that we weren't able to do before, not with a normal computer. Being able to do so many calculations in a short amount of time will be very beneficial to having data calculated faster and more fluent. I believe this may also grow to be used by not only people to support laboratories but to make more technical things. Even code may change completely on this new supercomputer and is either more simple or more complex. There is much more to find on a upgraded version of a computer that is 100x's better then the original. I see that there would be more uses for supercomputers as they are in the making. Maybe even price drops for them when they become common. Other then that, our technology keeps growing to be more and more advanced, so we need to keep up with it by knowing why it is advanced. Technology has changed the world.

Krieger, Lisa M. “Meet Sierra: Livermore's Powerful New Supercomputer.” The Mercury News, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2018, www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/27/meet-sierra-livermores-powerful-new-supercomputer.

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