2019-5-7 17:22 |
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced it’s setting aside $600 million to build the world’s fastest supercomputer called Frontier. It will be jointly developed by AMD and Seattle-based supercomputer specialist Cray.
The Frontier supercomputer will be capable of completing more than 1. 5 quintillion calculations per second, and will join Aurora to become the second of the two exascale systems planned by US DoE for 2021. To give a sense of scale, a quintillion is a billion billion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. The machine, upon completion in Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), will be about 10 times faster than the current fastest supercomputer, dubbed Summit,…
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