Chicoma was named for Chicoma Mountain, the highest point in the Jemez Mountains, held sacred by many of the Puebloan peoples of New Mexico. Chicoma offers more than 79,000 cores, 300 terabytes of system memory, and access to A100 Tensor Core graphics processing units (GPUs) Chicoma is one of five high performance computing systems available to Los Alamos scientists and engineers (students included) through the Lab’s IC program for unclassified work. The research projects include applied machine learning, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, climate modeling, fluid dynamics and fluid dynamics, HIV, nanotechnology, wildfire simulation and national security science, to list but a few. The new system is unique both in the capabilities that it offers and its forward technical look. . . .
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