It’s official, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Frontier system is the world’s first exascale supercomputer. That’s right, the system achieved 1.1 exaflops, making it the world’s fastest supercomputer as well as the first to break the exascale barrier. Its performance is double the number two system and greater than the sum of the next seven systems on the most recent Top 500 supercomputers list.
If you’re interested in the hardware, it has a 62.68 gigaflops/watt power-efficiency from a single cabinet of optimized 3rd-generation AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI250x accelerators. As for mixed-precision computing performance, the system managed 6.86 exaflops, as measured by the High-Performance Linpack-Accelerator Introspection (HPL-AI) test. What’s next? Continued testing and validation of the system, which should be open for full science at the beginning of 2023. Frontier would compliment NVIDIA’s Perlmutter, which is currently the world’s fastest AI supercomputer.
- AMD's fastest 8 core processor for mainstream desktop, with 16 procesing threads. OS Support-Windows 10 64-Bit Edition
- Can deliver elite 100+ FPS performance in the world's most popular games
- Cooler not included, high-performance cooler recommended
We are excited that AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators power the world’s fastest, most energy efficient, and first supercomputer to break the exascale barrier. Innovation and delivering more performance and efficiency for supercomputers is critical to addressing the world’s most complex challenges. AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators continue to push the envelope in high performance computing, providing the performance needed to advance scientific discoveries,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD.
