Sierra

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Sierra

Summary

Sierra is a supercomputer[1]. Sierra draws 38 Wikipedia views per month (supercomputer category, ranking #17 of 57).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sierra's field of work was research[3].
  • Sierra's field of work was nuclear power[4].
  • Sierra is in the country of United States[5].
  • Sierra's instance of is recorded as supercomputer[6].
  • Sierra's operator is recorded as National Nuclear Security Administration[7].
  • Sierra's operator is recorded as United States Department of Energy[8].
  • Sierra's manufacturer is recorded as IBM[9].
  • Sierra's manufacturer is recorded as Nvidia[10].
  • Sierra's manufacturer is recorded as Mellanox Technologies (United States)[11].
  • Sierra's developer is recorded as IBM[12].
  • Sierra's location is recorded as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[13].
  • Sierra's operating system is recorded as Q215273[14].
  • Sierra's part of is recorded as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[15].
  • Sierra's country of origin is recorded as United States[16].
  • Sierra's has part is recorded as OpenPOWER Microwatt[17].
  • +2018-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Sierra[18].
  • Sierra's official website is recorded as https://computation.llnl.gov/computers/sierra[19].
  • Sierra's CPU is recorded as POWER9[20].
  • Sierra's described at URL is recorded as https://hpc.llnl.gov/hardware/platforms/sierra[21].
  • Sierra's number of processor cores is recorded as {'amount': '+1572480'}[22].
  • Sierra's ranking is recorded as {'amount': '+3'}[23].
  • Sierra's ranking is recorded as {'amount': '+10'}[24].
  • Sierra's ranking is recorded as {'amount': '+6'}[25].
  • Sierra's ranking is recorded as {'amount': '+5'}[26].
  • Sierra's ranking is recorded as {'amount': '+3'}[27].

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Career and Affiliations

Fields of work include research[3], a type of process[28] and nuclear power[4], an energy production[29].

Why It Matters

Sierra draws 38 Wikipedia views per month (supercomputer category, ranking #17 of 57).[2] Sierra has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Sierra is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . hpc.llnl.gov. Retrieved . hpc.llnl.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . cacm.acm.org. Retrieved . cacm.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . computation.llnl.gov. Retrieved . computation.llnl.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . hpc.llnl.gov. Retrieved . hpc.llnl.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . cacm.acm.org. Retrieved . cacm.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . cacm.acm.org. Retrieved . cacm.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . top500.org. Retrieved . top500.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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