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The newest supercomputer [[Perlmutter_(supercomputer)|Perlmutter]], is named in honor of [[Saul Perlmutter]], an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab who shared the 2011 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for his contributions to research showing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. It is a [[Cray]] system based on the Shasta architecture, with [[Zen 3]] based [[Epyc|AMD Epyc]] [[Central processing unit|CPUs]] ("Milan") and [[Ampere (microarchitecture)|NVIDIA Ampere]] [[Graphics processing unit|GPUs]]. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nersc.gov/systems/perlmutter/|title = Perlmutter}}</ref>

 

Another NERSC supercomputer is CORI, named in honor of [[Gerty Cori]], a [[biochemist]] who was the first American woman to receive a [[Nobel Prize]] in science. Cori is a [[Cray XC40]] system with 622,336 Intel processor cores and a theoretical peak performance of 30 [[petaflop]]/s (30 quadrillion operations per second). Cori was delivered in two phases. The first phase — also known as the Data Partition — was installed in late 2015 and comprises 12 cabinets and more than 1,600 [[Xeon|Intel Xeon]] "Haswell" compute nodes. It was customized to support data-intensive science and the analysis of large [[Data set|datasets]] through a combination of hardware and software configurations and queue policies.