The top 500 supercomputer is 'Frontier', equipped with AMD 3rd generation EPYC processor and Instinct MI250X, and the calculation performance reaches 100K times, and 'Tomitake' retreats to 2nd place.



' Frontier ' of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States won the first place in '

TOP500 ' which is the calculation speed ranking of supercomputers in the world.

The calculation speed of a computer is expressed in units called 'FLOPS', which indicates how many floating-point operations can be performed per second, but the frontier is 1.102 Exaflops per second, that is, 110K 2000 trillion times. , Reached the exascale (100K times unit) for the first time in the world.

ORNL's Frontier First to Break the Exaflop Ceiling | TOP500
https://top500.org/news/ornls-frontier-first-to-break-the-exaflop-ceiling/



Frontier supercomputer debuts as world's fastest, breaking exascale barrier | ORNL

https://www.ornl.gov/news/frontier-supercomputer-debuts-worlds-fastest-breaking-exascale-barrier

Top500: Exascale Is Officially Here with Debut of Frontier
https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/05/30/top500-exascale-is-officially-here-with-debut-of-frontier/

You can see what kind of supercomputer the frontier is by watching the following movie.

Frontier: The World's First Exascale Supercomputer Has Arrived --YouTube


'The world's first exascale supercomputer is here'



'1.1 Exaflops is also the fastest supercomputer in the world.'



'How fast is it?'



'You can calculate more than 100 K times per second.'



'It will take more than four years for all humankind on earth to solve what the frontier solves in one second.'



'Frontier will take scientific discoveries to a new dimension ...'



'We will achieve an unprecedented breakthrough.'



'Welcome to the new frontier of computing'



In addition, the following infographics have been produced by the Department of Energy, which operates the frontier, and Mr. Radi Field of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In addition to what was said in the previous movie, the following is shown.
700 petabytes: Frontier storage system 'Orion' can store 35 times more data than the Library of Congress
8000 lbs: Each cabinet weighs the equivalent of a full-size pickup truck
6000 gallons (about 23 cubic meters): 6000 gallons of water per minute circulates in the system with four 350 horsepower pumps that can fill an Olympic-standard pool in about 30 minutes.
・ 40 MW: The electricity used by the frontier cooling equipment is equivalent to about 30,000 ordinary American households.



Frontier uses 74 HPE Cray EX cabinets.

AMD 3rd generation EPYC processor and AMD Instinct MI250X accelerator make up one node, and the number of nodes is 9408. Each node is equipped with one CPU and four GPUs, with 8,731,112 cores and 37,632 GPUs.

Tomitake, who had been the top 500 in the TOP500 for four consecutive terms since June 2020, has retreated to second place. However, in the BFS (breadth-first search) category of the performance ranking 'Graph500' for large-scale graph analysis, we have won the first place in the world for the fifth consecutive term.

Supercomputer 'Tomitake' won first place in the world in Graph500 BFS category for 5 consecutive terms: Fujitsu
https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2022/05/30-2.html



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