LLNL selected Aquatherm in 2012 and again in 2018 to ensure vital supercomputer cooling
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California, is the home to some of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet.
The Sequoia supercomputer at LLNL is a 20 petaFLOP/s (quadrillion floating operations per second) system that was ranked the world’s fastest supercomputer in June 2012. It was constructed by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as part of the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program. It was delivered to LLNL in 2011 and fully deployed in June 2012. The system supports two missions: quantifying the uncertainties in numerical simulations of nuclear weapons performance and performing the advanced weapons science calculations needed to develop accurate physics-based models for weapons codes.