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