Sequoia Supercomputer Breaks Simulation Speed Record

504 billion events per second - that's the record breaking computing speed achieved by the 'Sequoia Blue Gene/Q supercomputer' at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). A team of computer engineers at LLNL & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute achieved this record breaking high performance computing speed recently and are expected to announce the same via a paper to be published this month. The earlier record was 12.2 billion events per seconds and was established in 2009. The new record beats the earlier one 41 times over. Impressive, isn't it?


The Sequoia Blue Gene/Q supercomputer has been constructed by IBM and comprises of 120 server racks. The machine's peaks at 25 petaflops (= 25 quadrillion floating point operations per second) and currently holds the title of the second fastest supercomputer in the world after the World's Fastest Supercomputer Gets World's Fastest Storage System, which is currently the fastest supercomputer in the world.

The record was set using ROSS (Rensselaer's Optimistic Simulation System) & Time Warp synchronisation algorithm. According to researchers, the significance of the demonstration is that the planetary scale simulations are now within reach. Read more on this update on the source link below.

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