AMD Wins Big Contract for 1.5 Exaflop Supercomputer

alex75871 · May 7, 2019

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the US Department of Energy have announced that Frontier is set to be a 1.5 exaflop supercomputer. For comparison, the fastest existing supercomputer is 0.2 exaflop. The supercomputer will be powered exclusively by a future version of AMD EPYC and Radeon Instinct. The new supercomputer scheduled for 2021 will be the most powerful supercomputer in the world. This will do a lot to bolster AMD’s market perception and support.

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Today Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the US Department of Energy (US DoE) are making a big announcement. In 2021 we will see the Frontier supercomputer reaching levels of performance that are well beyond anything we have today. Frontier is set to be a 1.5 exaflop supercomputer. For some context, the Summit supercomputer, today’s fastest, is around 0.2 exaflops. While Summit was based on IBM Power and NVIDIA, Frontier will go in a different direction. At today’s announcement, the company says that the new Cray supercomputer will be powered by a future AMD EPYC generation as well as a future AMD Radeon Instinct. STH attended a pre-briefing call on the new supercomputer.

Source: https://www.servethehome.com/cray-and-amd-win-big-contracts-for-1-5-exaflop-frontier-supercomputer/