Red Hat just announced its role in bringing a top scientific supercomputer into service in the U.S. Named “Summit” and housed at the Department of Energy’s OAK Ridge National Labs, this system with its 4,608 IBM compute servers is running — you guessed it — Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The Summit collaborators
With IBM providing its POWER9 processors, Nvidia contributing its Volta V100 GPUs, Mellanox bringing its Infiniband into play, and Red Hat supplying Red Hat Enterprise OS, the level of inter-vendor collaboration has reached something of an all-time high and an amazing new supercomputer is now ready for business.
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