The world’s first exascale supercomputer Frontier is not just the world’s most powerful by a margin but it is also the most efficient.
- Frontier, developed by US’s designated supercomputer facility, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, is the world’s first supercomputer to cross the performance margin of 1 exaflops.
- With this, the supercomputer has surpassed Fugaku, belonging to Japan, as the world’s most powerful supercomputer currently.
- Frontier is capable of performing a billion billion operations per second.
- The Frontier computing system is housed in 74 separate cabinets, comprising 9400 CPUs, or standard computer processors and 37,000 GPUs, which are processors designed to render 3D graphics but can also be used for a range of other tasks.
- Frontier features a theoretical peak performance of 2 exaflops, or two quintillion calculations per second, making it ten times more powerful than ORNL’s Summit system.
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