Summit (supercomputer)

Summit
SponsorsUnited States Department of Energy
OperatorsIBM
Architecture9,216 POWER9 22-core CPUs
27,648 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
Power13 MW
Operating systemRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Storage250 PB
Speed200 petaFLOPS (peak)
RankingTOP500: 7 (1H2024)
PurposeScientific research
Websitewww.olcf.ornl.gov/olcf-resources/compute-systems/summit/

Summit or OLCF-4 was a supercomputer developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America. It held the number 1 position on the TOP500 list from June 2018 to June 2020. As of June 2024, its LINPACK benchmark was clocked at 148.6 petaFLOPS. Summit was decommissioned on November 15, 2024.

As of November 2019, the supercomputer had ranked as the 5th most energy efficient in the world with a measured power efficiency of 14.668 gigaFLOPS/watt. Summit was the first supercomputer to reach exaflop (a quintillion operations per second) speed, on a non-standard metric, achieving 1.88 exaflops during a genomic analysis and is expected to reach 3.3 exaflops using mixed-precision calculations.