Perlmutter Dedication: First Calculations
Channel: NERSC
Date: 2021-06-07

Dr. Saul Perlmutter releases the first queue of scientific calculations executed on phase I of his namesake supercomputer on May 27, 2021. "Perlmutter" is an HPE Cray system featuring Nvidia GPUs and AMD's EPYC processors. Working with a new HPE Cray "Slingshot" interconnect and 35 TB of all-flash memory, the system can support a wide variety of scientific workloads including simulations, data analysis, and artificial intelligence algorithms.