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Summit supercomputer set to be retired in November — it was the world's most powerful back in 2018-19

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer is set to be decommissioned in November this year .

Summit once stood as the most powerful supercomputer in the world, taking the top spot on the Top500 list during 2018 and 2019 .

It has 4,356 nodes, each one powered by two IBM Power9 22 -core 3.07 GHz CPUs with six Nvidia Tesla GV100 GPUs.

It was dethroned in 2020 by the Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer, but ORNL regained top spot in 2022 with the AMD -powered Frontier supercomputer.

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