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 named after astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter and will initially be tasked with building the most ambitious 3D map of the universe ever seen,
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