More than ten supercomputers operate on the territory of Russia, the leader among which is Lomonosov-2. Its performance is more than 2 petaflops, which makes it 63rd in the TOP 500 of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Employees of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, located in the Moscow region city of Dubna, presented a new supercomputer "Govorun", which will be used to process data from the future heavy ion collider NICA.
The new supercomputer was named in honor of Academician Nikolai Nikolayevich Govorun - Soviet mathematician, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief of the legendary journal "Programming". In addition to the staff of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, specialists from Intel, NVIDIA, IBS Platformix and PCK also worked on the creation of a computer. The supercomputer is based on 72-core Intel Xeon Phi 7290 and Intel Xeon Gold 6154 processors. Information between computational nodes is carried out using Intel Omni-Path technology at a speed of 100 Gbps.
The performance of the "Talker" is 1 petaflops, which is equivalent to a quadrillion computational operations with floating point per second. This automatically makes him a member of the TOP 500 of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The developers are very proud to have implemented an incredibly efficient liquid cooling system that uses no more than 6% of the power consumed by a supercomputer. The main task of the "Govorun" will be to simulate the dynamics of the collision of heavy nuclei at the NICA collider. In addition, it will be used in research related to new materials.
Sergey Gray
