Approved list of projects that will download the most powerful supercomputer in the world

News about supercomputers periodically pop up in the press. The list of the fastest computers keeps changing. If you were wondering what the supercomputers can download, besides rendering the last cartoon Pixar and GTA V in 4K resolution, here you are - a list of 13 scientific projects that were allowed to work on the last digital monster that will be ready by 2018 year This is a Summit supercomputer with a capacity of 300 petaFLOPS. The project aims to overtake the most powerful of the existing computers, the Chinese Tianhe-2.



The computer will be constructed from 3500 nodes running on IBM Power9 and Nvidia Volta GPU, connected together via NVlink, an ultra-fast bus that transfers data at speeds up to 200 Gb / s.

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The list of projects looks like this:

• XGC Plasma Physics Project from Princeton University. Simulation and study of electrostatic turbulence and other effects in toric synthesis systems.
  
  
• Seismological project SPECFEM from Princeton University. Simulation of seismic wave propagation.
  
  
• ACME climate simulator from Lawrence Livermore's laboterium. The study of polar cap changes and other climatic studies.
• Relativistic chemistry DIRAC from the University of Amsterdam. Calculation of molecular properties and simulation of quantum chemistry.
• Astrophysical simulations FLASH from Oakridge Laboratory. The study of thermonuclear supernovae and other objects with high energy density.
  
  
• GTC Plasma Physics from the University of California. Simulation of particle behavior in nuclear fusion.
  
  
• HACC cosmological simulations from the Argonne National Laboratory.
  
  
• LS-DALTON electronic structures from Aarhus University. The study of molecular electronic structures.
  
  
• Biophysics, NAMD project from the University of Illinois. Simulation of large biomolecular systems.
• Nuclear physics NUCOR from Oakridge Laboratory.
  
  
• Computational Chemistry NWCHEM , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• QMCPACK Materials Science from Oakridge Laboratory. Calculations of the electronic structures of molecular, quasi-two-dimensional and solid-state systems.
• RAPTOR engine engineering, Sandia National Laboratories. Platform for the simulation of modern internal combustion engines.

Russia is ranked 7th in the total computing power of available supercomputers. In the most recent Top-500 of November 2014, the Moscow State University’s computer (the 22nd place) became the most powerful computer from Russia.