What simply occurred? The strongest supercomputer on the earth now not comes from Japan: it is a machine from the United States powered by AMD {hardware}. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier can be the world’s first official exascale supercomputer, reaching 1.102 ExaFlop/s throughout its sustained Linpack run.
Japan’s A64X-based Fugaku system had held the primary spot on the Top500 record for the final two years with its 442 petaflops of efficiency. Frontier smashed that report by attaining 1.1 ExaFlops within the Linpack FP64 benchmark, although the system’s peak efficiency is rated at 1.69 ExaFlops.
Frontier has some spectacular specs: its 74 cupboards every weigh 8,000 kilos and are filled with 9,408 HPE Cray EX nodes. Each node is powered by an AMD “Trento” 7A53 Epyc CPU alongside 4 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X GPUs and 512 GB of DDR4 reminiscence. That equates to 602,112 CPU cores and 4.6 petabytes of DDR4 reminiscence. Additionally, the 37,888 GPUs function 8,138,240 cores and have 4.6 petabytes of HBM reminiscence (128GB per GPU).
The liquid-cooled system additionally make the most of 200 Gbit/second Slingshot-11 interconnect material and options 37 petabytes of node-local storage, 716 petabytes of center-wide storage, 75 TB/s of throughput, and 15 billion IOPS of efficiency. Its energy effectivity has additionally earned it the primary spot on the Green500 record, due to the 52.23 gigaflops per watt.
Frontier taking the highest spot means American methods at the moment are in first, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth positions within the high ten of the Top500. AMD powers 5 of the highest ten machines, whereas Intel powers only one—China’s Tianhe-2A, which makes use of Xeon E5-2692v2 Ivy Bridge CPUs.
Although Frontier is the primary official exascale laptop, two Chinese computer systems— Sunway Oceanlite and Tianhe-3—are believed to have already damaged the 1 ExaFlop barrier, reaching 1.3 ExaFlops within the Linpack benchmark, however the computer systems haven’t been submitted to the Top500 record.
