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| Battle of the supercomputing titans: US's Frontier overtakes Japan's Fugaku to become fastest in the world – breaking the 'exascale barrier' for the first time | |
| 2022-05-31 | |
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[ZDNet] US-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)'s Frontier system has been declared as the most powerful supercomputer and the "first true exascale machine" by the 59th edition of the Top500 global supercomputer list. American made by American companies. Based on the HPE Cray EX235a architecture and equipped with AMD EPYC 64C 2GHz processors, the system features more than 8,730,000 cores and surpassed the one exaflop barrier with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.102 exaflops. The supercomputer is currently being integrated and tested at the ORNL where it will be operated by the Department of Energy. By taking the top spot, Frontier knocks Japan's Fugaku system, which has held the number one ranking for the last two consecutive years, to number two as it continues to hit a HPL benchmark score of 442 PFlops. "Considering the fact that Fugaku's theoretical peak is above the one exaflop barrier, there's cause to also call this system an exascale machine as well. However, Frontier is the only system able to demonstrate this on the HPL benchmark test," according to the list. Rounding out the top three is newcomer Finland's Lumi system -- another HPE Cray EX system and Europe's largest system -- that has a performance of 151.9 Pflops using just over 1,110,100 cores. The Top500 also welcomed the addition of France's Adastra system -- the second most powerful machine in Europe and third HPE Cray EX system on the list -- to the 10th position, after it achieved an HPL benchmark score of 46.1 Pflops. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 #5 Shame they can't do the cancer genome mutations instead of modeling nuke bombs. I second that whole heartedly. |
| Posted by: Whanter Clese9689 2022-05-31 18:41 |
| #7 #5 - ever try FoldingatHome? When the PS3 came out someone discovered the power of those systems linked together could help when you're not using them. Also because of that, the PS3 was banned for certain countries which might be interested in such computer power. On September 16, 2007, due in large part to the participation of PlayStation 3 consoles, the Folding@home project officially attained a sustained performance level higher than one native petaFLOPS, becoming the first computing system of any kind to do so. Originally, players were recruited for folding proteins on their system in cancer research. Now its been expanded to cover additional systems and venues. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-05-31 16:48 |
| #6 The hardware can do whatever the software instructs. ORNL does lots of stuff besides nuke explosion simulations, but I don't think cancer genetic modeling is part of their portfolio. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-31 15:20 |
| #5 Shame they can't do the cancer genome mutations instead of modeling nuke bombs. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-05-31 15:11 |
| #4 Good for HPE but they still need China to build laptops for them. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-05-31 12:59 |
| #3 (Very) former supercomputer champs long-eclipsed by the $300 smart phone in my pocket. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-05-31 09:45 |
| #2 My only question is why is it named Skynet? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-05-31 09:36 |
| #1 AMD and Cray - Two American based companies. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-31 09:33 |