A supercomputer located just 30 minutes from Chicago has the potential to change the course of American science.
The Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, IL, could soon be the world's fastest. It could revolutionize climate forecasting.This is what scientists at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont call a node: six huge graphics processors and two large CPUs cooled with water to make major calculations a cinch.
"It will do traditional things like climate studies. It will do things like the evolution of the universe, and then we will bring it to the more practical side. Things like designing better airplane engines, better airfoils, better drug design. It's really meant to support a wide variety of things," Papka said.
"I can try many, many different 'what if' scenarios for how the climate will play out," said Papka. "I could do all that in the computer that informs our decision and then of course we can choose where to go based on that. So it accelerates our ability to to think." Kotamarthi said he and other climate scientists like him will be able to use Aurora's sophisticated processing power to turn petabytes of data into transformative climate breakthroughs running any number of "what if" scenarios.
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