{"id":947,"date":"2012-06-19T18:54:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2012\/06\/19\/sequoia-supercomputer-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory"},"modified":"2022-09-26T20:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:17:43","slug":"sequoia-supercomputer-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/06\/19\/sequoia-supercomputer-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"SEQUOIA SUPERCOMPUTER, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"A Blue Gene\/Q supercomputer built on IBM Power architecture at the\r\nDepartment of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has taken pole position in the Top500.org of supercomputers in the world. The \"SEQUOIA SUPERCOMPUTER \" has a staggering 1.6 million cpu cores, 1.6 petabytes of memory all contained within 98,304 compute nodes and 96 compute racks. The numbers are indeed impressive.\r\n\r\nMore can be read <a title=\"Sequoia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/top-10-supercomputers-illustrated-june-2012\/\">here <\/a>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ibm-sequoia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Blue Gene\/Q supercomputer built on IBM Power architecture at the<br \/>\nDepartment of Energy&rsquo;s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has taken pole position in the Top500.org of supercomputers in the world. The &#8220;SEQUOIA SUPERCOMPUTER &#8221; has a staggering 1.6 million cpu cores, 1.6 petabytes of memory all contained within 98,304 compute nodes and 96 compute racks. The numbers are indeed impressive. <\/p>\n<p>More can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/top-10-supercomputers-illustrated-june-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sequoia\" rel=\"noopener\">here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/gallery\/1253\/ibm-sequoia1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"373\" height=\"213\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SEQUOIA SUPERCOMPUTER, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - UCT HPC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/06\/19\/sequoia-supercomputer-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEQUOIA SUPERCOMPUTER, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - UCT HPC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Blue Gene\/Q supercomputer built on IBM Power architecture at the  Department of Energy&rsquo;s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has taken pole position in the Top500.org of supercomputers in the world. 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