Summit is a supercomputer developed by IBM for Oak Ridge National Laboratory that as of November 2018 is the fastest in the world, capable of 200 petaflops. It has over 4,600 nodes with IBM POWER9 processors and Nvidia Volta GPUs for a total of more than 10 petabytes of memory. Summit will enable significantly faster computational performance than its predecessor Titan and allow researchers to address complex scientific questions.

1. About Summit?
• Summit (AI supercomputer) is a supercomputer
developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, which as of November, 2018 is the
fastest supercomputer in the world, capable of 200
petaflops.
• Dedicated to open science, Summit will drive scientific
study and discovery as one of the world’s most powerful
computers by enabling five to 10 times the
computational performance of its predecessor, Titan.

2. All about Summit and
ORNL : Press Releases
• https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-launches-
summit-supercomputer
• https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-s-summit-
supercomputer-named-world-s-fastest
• Video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voN9iB
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3. Industry
Researchers
can get access
to SUMMIT
• Summit is the next leap in leadership-class computing systems
for open science. With Summit we will be able to address, with
greater complexity and higher fidelity, questions concerning
who we are, our place on earth, and in our universe.
• Summit will allow researchers in all fields of science
unprecedented access to solving some of the world’s most
pressing challenges.
• Specifications and Features
• Processor: IBM POWER9™ (2/node)
• GPUs: 27,648 NVIDIA Volta V100s (6/node)
• Nodes: 4,608
• Node Performance: 42TF
• Memory/node: 512GB DDR4 + 96GB HBM2
• NV Memory/node: 1600GB
• Total System Memory: >10PB DDR4 + HBM + Non-volatile
• Interconnect Topology: Mellanox EDR 100G InfiniBand, Non-
blocking Fat Tree
• Peak Power Consumption: 13MW

4. A Building block to get access to SUMMIT
• Researchers can get access to SUMMIT ..
• Researchers may get access to nimbix.net to develop an initial AI/HPC Application
• Researchers may procure a Mini Summit super computer( 3 to 6 nodes clusters) and
develop an application
• For Scaling their applications to larger set of nodes/GPUs, they can make a request to
Oak Ridge for SUMMIT’s access.
Do u want to get onto this fastest super computer and also run your AI/HPC workloads
across thousands of Power Processor as well as GPUs ?
This page explains the difference between the various allocation programs and the criteria
for each: INCITE, ALCC and Director’s Discretionary (DD). You will find links to each for
more information here: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/for-users/getting-started/
Application to get access to the system https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/for-users/documents-
forms/olcf-directors-discretion-project-application/

5. Each Summit Node’s performance