During Tuesday night, an updated version of “top 500” – A list that ranks the 500 fastest and most powerful supercomputers in the world. At the top, and not entirely unexpectedly, is the Frontier supercomputer, which has 8,730,112 AMD-signed processor cores that rise to Exascale level.
Although Frontier takes first place, it’s the second spot that the Top 500 highlights as among the most interesting. There’s Aurora, which combines HPE Cray Ex with hardware from Intel. More specifically, it handles the 4th generation “Sapphire Rapids”-based Xeon Max paired with graphics chips from Intel’s Xe-based Max family, formerly known as “Ponte Vecchio.”
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Like Frontier, Aurora is aiming for exascale, but supercomputing isn’t there yet. As a result of the delay, only half of the system is up and running and makes the Top 500 list. In full implementation, the supercomputer is slated to have 21,248 processors and 63,744 graphics circuits, which together should provide a computing power of 2 exaflops – just above 1,194 exaflops From Frontier.
The supercomputer consists of several modules, each containing two processors and six graphics circuits.
Despite this, Aurora is still able to surpass former runner-up Fugaku. The same applies to Eagle, a subsidiary of Microsoft, which combines Intel processors with H100 graphics chips based on Nvidia’s “Hopper” technology. With the entry of Eagle and Aurora, Finn Lomi also drops to the bottom of the list. It remains the best supercomputer in Europe, but despite the upgrades, the former third place is shifting to fifth place.
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