Nvidia launches new supercomputer with monster AI performance . Perlmutter could complete tasks in days that would normally take months. Perlmutter(left) was named after the astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter(right) The newest big-na m e supercomputer might help solve some of astrophysics' most important questions. Nvidia has fired up a new supercomputer said to be the fastest in the world for AI workloads at the National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center (NERSC) in California. T he National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center has officially dedicated Perlmutter , billed as one of the fastest supercomputers for AI, and it will start by helping to build the largest-ever 3D map of the visible universe to study the dark energy accelerating the cosmos' expansion. The supercomputer is nam...
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