Frontier retains top spot among world's fastest supercomputers

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Frontier retains top spot among world's fastest supercomputers

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Here is a breakdown of specific details for the 10 overall fastest supercomputer systems on the TOP500 list for May 2024:

#1: Frontier

This HPE Cray EX system is the first U.S. system with a performance exceeding one Exaflop/s. It is installed at the ORNL in Tenn., where it is operated for the Department of Energy (DOE). 

  • Cores: 8,699,904
  • Rmax (PFLOPS): 1,206.00
  • Rpeak (PFLOPS): 1,714.81
  • Power (kW): 22,786

#2: Aurora

The Aurora system is installed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Illinois, USA, where it is also operated for the DOE and holds a preliminary HPL score of 1.012 Exaflop/s. 

  • Cores: 9,264,128
  • Rmax (PFLOPS): 1,012.00
  • Rpeak (PFLOPS): 1,980.01
  • Power (kW): 38,698

#3: Eagle

The No. 3 system is installed by Microsoft in its Azure cloud. This Microsoft NDv5 system is based on Xeon Platinum 8480C processors and Nvidia H100 accelerators and achieved an HPL score of 561 Pflop/s.

  • Cores: 2,073,600
  • Rmax (PFLOPS): 561.20
  • Rpeak (PFLOPS): 846.84

#4: Supercomputer Fugaku

This system is installed at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan. It has 7,630,848 cores which allowed it to achieve an HPL benchmark score of 442 Pflop/s.

  • Cores: 7,630,848
  • Rmax (PFLOPS): 442.01
  • Rpeak (PFLOPS): 537.21
  • Power (kW): 29,899

#5: LUMI

Located in CSC’s data center in Kajaani, Finland, the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is pooling European resources to develop top-of-the-range Exascale supercomputers for processing big data.



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