May 23, 2023 16:55:00

AMD is making great strides in the world's fastest supercomputer top 500, while Frontier defends first place and Fugaku is second

June 2023 of `` TOP500 '', which ranks the performance of the world's supercomputers every six months, was announced, and ``

Frontier ' ' of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States protected the first place, RIKEN calculations The Science Research Center's ' Fugaku ' was second.

June 2023 | TOP500
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2023/06/

Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges | ORNL

https://www.ornl.gov/news/early-frontier-users-seize-exascale-advantage-grapple-grand-scientific-challenges

AMD Now Powers 121 of the World's Fastest Supercomputers | Tom's Hardware

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-now-powers-121-of-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers

The 1st place in the “TOP500” announced on May 23, 2023 is the “Frontier” with

a LINPACK performance of 1194 PFLOPS (petaflops) per second, and has maintained the top position for the third consecutive term since June 2022.

The previous performance in November 2022 was 1102 PFLOPS per second, but the score has increased by 92 FLOPS. In addition, 92 FLOPS exceeds ' Perlmutter ' of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab, which entered 8th place in this 'TOP500'.

Supercomputer ``Perlmutter'' equipped with 6159 GPUs ``NVIDIA A100'' for data centers is in operation, missions such as analysis of the mystery of the universe ``dark energy'' - GIGAZINE

Second place went to Fugaku from the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan. LINPACK performance is 442.01PFLOPS.

'Frontier' is a supercomputer equipped with AMD's 3rd generation EPYC processor, and in addition to this, 121 supercomputers equipped with AMD's CPU are ranked in the 'TOP500'. This is a 29% increase from 2022. As of 2016, there were 13 supercomputers equipped with AMD CPUs in the TOP500, so it is a great leap forward by 930%.

On the other hand, the number of supercomputers equipped with Intel CPUs is decreasing, which was 454 in 2016, but decreased by 21% to 360 in 2023.

NVIDIA also announced that it is developing a supercomputer 'Isambard 3' equipped with Arm-based NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip.

NVIDIA Grace Leads New Wave of Energy Efficient Arm Supercomputers | NVIDIA Press Release
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000378.000012662.html