Lawrence Labs create a new big data computer

The Lawrence Moore National Laboratory of the United States, in collaboration with http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18652.html > Intel Corporation and Cray Corporation, has built a "Catalyst (catalyst)" Supercomputer to deal with massive amounts of data. The machine was submitted to Lawrence Labs last month and has been put into use this month, and will be officially delivered this December.

Lawrence Labs create a new big data computer

The "catalyst" will be used by the Department of Energy's three weapons laboratories: Livermore, the National Laboratory of Sandy countries (across the street, also in New Mexico State) and Alamos (Los Alamos) National Laboratory. It will be used to deal with the astonishing data generated by a simulated atomic bomb. As atomic experiments are banned, scientists have devised a clever way to simulate the smaller equivalent of conventional explosions, but the data analysis needed is staggering.

The "catalyst" floating-point computing capacity is 150 trillion times per second. But it will not only be used to simulate nuclear explosions, but, according to the lab partner Program, it would also be available to businesses and other research institutions for complex computations such as natural language processing, business analysis, machine learning and bioinformatics. The Livermore Laboratory also carries out weather and climate analysis studies, which is another area that requires large data analysis.

The Livermore National Laboratory, founded in the Cold War 1952, was administered by the United States Department of Energy, which was issued by the University of California and some private companies, including the San Francisco engineering operations Bechtel and URS companies.