The 7 most powerful supercomputers in the world right now
WEBMar 28, 2024 · Supercomputers play a vital role in scientific discoveries — from helping us forecast climate change to discovering new drugs. We've rounded up the top fastest on the planet right now.
What’s next for the world’s fastest supercomputers
WEBSep 21, 2023 · It cost $600 million to build. When Frontier came online, it marked the dawn of so-called exascale computing, with machines that can execute an exaflop—or a quintillion (10 18 ) floating...
Frontier (supercomputer) - Wikipedia
WEBOak Ridge partnered with HPE Cray and AMD to build the system at a cost of US$600 million. It began deployment in 2021 [15] and reached full capability in 2022. [16] It clocked 1.1 exaflops Rmax in May 2022, making it the world's fastest supercomputer as measured in the June 2022 edition of the TOP500 list, replacing Fugaku. [1] [17]
1.1 quintillion operations per second: US has world’s fastest ...
WEBMay 31, 2022 · The DOE in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion project to develop at least two exascale supercomputers to support a range of scientific research.
A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer - Nature
WEBSep 4, 2024 · The computational resources to train OpenAI’s GPT-4, for example, cost an estimated $78 million, whereas Google spent $191 million to train Gemini Ultra (see go.nature.com/44ihnhx). This gulf...
These are the world’s top 10 fastest supercomputers
WEBJun 21, 2022 · The US has retaken the top spot in the race to build the world’s fastest supercomputer. 'Frontier' is capable of more than a billion, billion operations a second, making it the first exascale supercomputer. Supercomputers have been used to discover more about diseases including COVID-19 and cancer.
Supercomputer - Wikipedia
WEBThe increasing cost of operating supercomputers has been a driving factor in a trend toward bundling of resources through a distributed supercomputer infrastructure. National supercomputing centers first emerged in the US, followed by Germany and Japan.
Frontier supercomputer debuts as world’s fastest, breaking ... - ORNL
WEBMay 30, 2022 · Frontier, a HPE Cray EX supercomputer, also claimed the number one spot on the Green500 list, which rates energy use and efficiency by commercially available supercomputing systems, with 62.68 gigaflops performance per watt.
US to Spend $600 Million on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
WEBMay 7, 2019 · The US has budgeted $600 million to build its second "exascale" supercomputer, which is slated to go online in 2021. The Frontier supercomputer will be capable of completing more than 1.5...
Aurora (supercomputer) - Wikipedia
WEBIt has been the second fastest supercomputer in the world since 2023. It is expected that after optimizing its performance it will exceed 2 ExaFLOPS , making it the fastest computer ever. The cost was estimated in 2019 to be US$500 million. [ 3 ]