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Livermore’s Sierra<\/strong><\/a> supercomputer comprises over 190,000 processing cores and is capable of a peak performance of 125,626 TFLOP\/s.<\/p>\n The device also includes a total of 17,280 Nvidia Volta GPUs, with four GPUs per compute node.<\/p>\n The United States government is leveraging this impressive processing power to perform simulations of nuclear launches and detonations.<\/p>\n “This work on Sierra has important implications for other global and national challenges such as nonproliferation and counterterrorism,” Livermore said.<\/p>\n Sierra will be air-gapped for security early next year, following which it will begin to perform the calculations needed to power these complex simulations.<\/p>\n The exact nature of the simulations conducted is classified, according the The Verge<\/strong><\/a>, which was admitted to report on the facility.<\/p>\n The world’s second-most powerful supercomputer will soon begin operations for the US National Security Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":285960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55708,3838,1353,47806],"class_list":["post-285958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gou","tag-nvidia","tag-supercomputer","tag-volta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0AMD Radeon RX 590 vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 \u2013 South African pricing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"