Astra is a petascale ARM supercomputer designed for Sandia National Laboratories expeced to be deployed in mid-2018. This is the first ARM-based supercomputer to exceed 1 petaFLOPS.

Overview

Astra is an ARM-based supercomputer expected to be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories. The computer is one of a series of prototypes commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a program that evaluates the feasibility of emerging high-performance computing architectures as production platforms to support NNSA's mission.

Bibliography

• SNL (personal communication, August 2018).
• DOE. (June 18, 2018). "Arm-based supercomputer prototype to be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories" [Press Release]
• Kevin Pedretti, Jim H. Laros III, Si Hammond. (June 28, 2018). "Vanguard Astra: Maturing the ARM Software Ecosystem for U.S. DOE/ASC Supercomputing"