Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Not Lonely at the Top: ORNL Leads Open Science with the Frontier Exascale Supercomputer - Mary Grush, Campus Technology

Twice a year since 1993, the famed TOP500 list project has meticulously measured and ranked the world's fastest, top-performing, nondistributed supercomputer systems. The latest list, published in June 2022, highlighted a new milestone in computing as Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier HPE Cray EX soared into the number one spot as the first supercomputer ever to demonstrate true exascale speeds. Frontier is housed at ORNL's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility under the auspices of the DOE Office of Science and is the product of more than a decade of collaboration among industry, academia, and national labs. When the numbers are that big they really do start to lose meaning. Another way to try to imagine this is, if every person on planet earth could do one calculation per second, it would take four years to do what Frontier does in one second.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2022/06/13/not-lonely-at-the-top-ornl-leads-open-science-with-the-frontier-exascale-supercomputer.aspx