Summit (supercomputer) - Quiz
Summit supercomputer
  • 1. What is the official designation of the Summit supercomputer?
A) OLCF-5
B) OLCF-4
C) CORAL-1
D) IBM-1
  • 2. Which company developed the Summit supercomputer?
A) IBM
B) Intel
C) AMD
D) Cray
  • 3. In what year was Summit decommissioned?
A) 2022
B) 2023
C) 2024
D) 2020
  • 4. How many nodes are in the Summit supercomputer?
A) 2,048
B) 5,600
C) 4,608
D) 8,192
  • 5. Which facility hosts the Summit supercomputer?
A) Los Alamos National Laboratory
B) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
C) Argonne National Laboratory
D) Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 6. What is the primary purpose of the Sierra supercomputer?
A) Nuclear weapons simulations
B) Climate modeling
C) Cosmology research
D) Genomic analysis
  • 7. What type of CPUs does each Summit node contain?
A) AMD EPYC
B) IBM POWER9
C) IBM POWER8
D) Intel Xeon
  • 8. What type of GPUs does each Summit node contain?
A) Nvidia GeForce
B) Intel Arc
C) Nvidia Tesla
D) AMD Radeon
  • 9. What interconnect technology connects the POWER9 CPUs and Volta GPUs?
A) PCIe
B) Ethernet
C) NVLink
D) InfiniBand
  • 10. What is the total storage capacity provided by Summit's GPFS file system?
A) 500PB
B) 100PB
C) 1PB
D) 250PB
  • 11. What speed did Summit reach during genomic analysis?
A) 1.88 exaflops
B) 200 petaFLOPS
C) 148.6 petaFLOPS
D) 3.3 exaflops
  • 12. What is the measured power efficiency of Summit as of November 2019?
A) 10.5 gigaFLOPS/watt
B) 14.668 gigaFLOPS/watt
C) 5.5 gigaFLOPS/watt
D) 20.1 gigaFLOPS/watt
  • 13. Which companies were awarded the contract for Summit and Sierra in 2014?
A) IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox
B) Intel, AMD and Dell
C) Mellanox, Cisco and HPE
D) IBM, Intel and Nvidia
  • 14. What is the approximate square footage of the Summit supercomputer?
A) 2,000 square feet
B) 500 square feet
C) 10,000 square feet
D) 5,600 square feet
  • 15. What topology is used to connect the nodes of Summit?
A) Mesh
B) Non-blocking fat-tree
C) Hypercube
D) Torus
  • 16. What is the center-wide parallel file system used by Summit?
A) BeeGFS
B) NFS
C) GPFS (IBM Storage Scale)
D) Lustre
  • 17. Summit held the number 1 position on the TOP500 list during which period?
A) June 2019 to June 2021
B) June 2018 to June 2020
C) June 2016 to June 2018
D) June 2017 to June 2019
  • 18. How much non-volatile RAM does each node have?
A) 600 GB
B) 512 GB
C) 96 GB
D) 800 GB
  • 19. What is the LINPACK benchmark speed of Summit as of June 2024?
A) 3.3 exaflops
B) 1.88 exaflops
C) 250 petaFLOPS
D) 148.6 petaFLOPS
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