PC Mag
May 30, 2022
The world’s fastest supercomputer resides at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and counts as the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 exaflops/second.
The Frontier supercomputer was announced as the fastest supercomputer today in the 59th TOP500 list(Opens in a new window). It uses Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Cray EX platform, and consists of 74 purpose-built cabinets. Contained within them are a mix of AMD EPYC 64C 2GHz processors and AMD Instinct 250X professional GPUs. In total, there are more than 9,400 CPUs and 37,000 GPUs for a total core count of 8,730,112.