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World’s fastest supercomputer

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.

  1. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5,
  2. world’s first and fastest exascale supercomputer,
  3. hosted at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) in Tennessee, United States
  4. first operational in 2022.
  5. It is based on the Cray EX
  6. It is the successor to Summit (OLCF-4).
  7. As of March 2023, Frontier is the world’s fastest supercomputer.
  8. Frontier achieved an Rmax of 1.102 exaFLOPS, which is 1.102 quintillion operations per second, using AMD CPUs and GPUs.
  9. 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.