Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sequoia supercomputer has grabbed the top spot on the list of the world’s fastest computers. The Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was revealed early this morning at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, and the IBM-built Sequoia was able to sustain a speed of 16.32 petaflops (a quadrillion floating point operations per second). Sequoia, which is dedicated to work for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s weapons program, consists of 96 racks, 98,304 compute nodes, 1.6 million cores, and 1.6 petabytes of memory.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓