Originally published at: Lawrence Livermore Unveils Sierra, World’s Third Fastest Supercomputer | NVIDIA Technical Blog
The U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) last week announced the unveiling of Sierra, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Sierra is ranked as the world’s third-fastest supercomputer in the world with a peak performance of 125 petaFLOPS -125 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. “Sierra can perform most required calculations…