Gigassl

The gigassl is a new supercomputer that was unveiled in June of 2017. It is the fastest computer in the world, with a theoretical peak performance of 1.5 exaFLOPS. That's 1,500 petaFLOPS, or 1.5 quadrillion calculations per second. The gigassl is made up of 9,216 interconnected nodes, each of which has two Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 processors and 4 terabytes of memory.

The gigassl was designed and built by IBM, and is housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. It took IBM more than two years to build, and cost $200 million. The gigassl is the successor to the world's previous fastest computer, the Sunway TaihuLight, which is also housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The gigassl is the result of a new era of supercomputing, known as exascale computing. Exascale computing is the next step up from petascale computing, which is the current state of the art. Petascale computing is the ability to perform a quadrillion calculations per second, and is currently used by governments and research institutions around the world to solve complex scientific problems.

The gigassl is the first exascale computer to be delivered to a customer. It is expected to be put into service in early 2018, and will be used to simulate nuclear weapons explosions, study the effects of climate change, and investigate the structure of proteins.