World’s first and fastest exascale supercomputer
[A] LUMI
[B] Leonardo
[C] Fugaku
[D] Frontier
As of March 2023, Frontier is the world’s fastest supercomputer.
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5,
- world’s first and fastest exascale supercomputer,
- hosted at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) in Tennessee, United States
- first operational in 2022.
- It is based on the Cray EX
- It is the successor to Summit (OLCF-4).
- As of March 2023, Frontier is the world’s fastest supercomputer.
- Frontier achieved an Rmax of 1.102 exaFLOPS, which is 1.102 quintillion operations per second, using AMD CPUs and GPUs.
- Measured at 62.68 gigaflops/watt, Frontier topped the Green500 list for most efficient supercomputer, until it was dethroned (in efficiency) by Flatiron Institute’s Henri supercomputer in November 2022.
Green500
Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency.
