At the end of May, the ranking of the fastest supercomputers was revealed, with AMD taking the lead with the ORNL Frontier.
Over 1.6 exaflops in peak performance for Frontier thanks to AMD
This Monday, May 30, the Frontier supercomputer powered by 64-core EPYC Zen 3 processors, codenamed Trento and accompanied by MI250X GPUs, became the ” first ” machine to break the exascale barrier. With 8730112 cores (or 136408 processors) and 545632 MI250X, Frontier peaks at 1.685 exaflops in theoretical performance and 1.102 exaflops on the Linpack benchmark.
Not only has Frontier become the most powerful supercomputer, it is also the most efficient with 52.23 gigaflops/watt. In comparison, in second place, we find the Fugaku equipped with A64 FX processors of ARM architecture offers 537 petaflops in theory and 442 petaflopson Linpack and an efficiency of 14.8 gigaflops/watt.
Frontier opens a new era for supercomputers having broken the barrier of the exascale, which should be quickly followed by El Capitan aiming at 2 exaflops with EPYC Zen 4 processors and the next CDNA3 GPUs. Find the press release and the rest of the ranking directly on the TOP500 website.
