HP Enterprise’s Frontier supercomputer reaches 1.1 exaflops of computing power. According to HPE, this makes it the first supercomputer in the world to break the ‘exascale’ barrier. Frontier will be faster than the sum of the seven other fastest systems, according to the Top500 ranking.
The Frontier system uses 64-core AMD Epyc third generation processors and AMD Instinct MI250x accelerators. In total, Frontier contains 8,730,112 processing cores. These produce 52.23 gigaflops per watt, making it the most fuel-efficient supercomputer in the world – 32 percent more efficient than the previous number one computer.
Frontier includes approximately 90 miles of dedicated HP Enterprise network cable, and the system has 700 petabytes of high-speed storage. To keep everything cool, water cooling is used, for which four pumps with a capacity of 350 hp are responsible.
Inside the Frontier supercomputer and an infographic.
Built for Frontier Energy Department United states. The supercomputer will be used for research on cancer diagnosis and prognosis, drugs, renewable energy and new materials.
Sources: HP Enterprise (press release), Top500
Source: Hardware Info
