US’ Frontier overtakes Japan’s Fugaku as world’s strongest supercomputer

The world’s first exascale supercomputer is not only the world’s strongest by a margin however additionally it is essentially the most environment friendly. Frontier, developed by US’s designated supercomputer facility, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, is the world’s first supercomputer to cross the efficiency margin of 1 exaflops. With this, the supercomputer has surpassed Fugaku, belonging to Japan’s Riken Centre for Computational Science, because the world’s strongest supercomputer proper now.

Frontier’s nearest competitor, Fugaku, has a efficiency rating of 442 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark – a typical for formally rating world, publicly disclosed supercomputers. While Fugaku was based mostly on Arm’s core designs, US’s Frontier is powered by AMD.

Interestingly, Frontier can be mentioned to be essentially the most energy environment friendly supercomputer constructed until date. According to stories, Frontier has an influence consumption ranking of 52.2 gigaflops per watt. This rating outdoes essentially the most environment friendly supercomputer until date, the Preferred Networks MN-3, which supplied 39.4 gigaflops per watt in energy ranking.

The newest listing of the world’s high 500 supercomputers is about to be unveiled in Germany within the coming days, and is taken into account to be the ‘official’ listing of the world’s strongest supercomputers.

To be certain, Frontier has been constructed as the primary ‘true’ exascale supercomputer. The latter is a reference to traditional supercomputers (i.e. computing techniques not constructed on quantum computing ideas) that supply efficiency functionality of greater than 1 exaflop. While Japan’s Fugaku was billed as the primary exascale supercomputer, Frontier can seemingly apply its peak, 1.1-exaflop computing energy in real-world duties and never simply in benchmarks.

In its earlier itemizing as of November 2021, India’s highest rating within the supercomputer listing got here in at 102, with the Param Siddhi-AI. The latter belongs to India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) – that gives peak efficiency of three.3 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark scale.

Interestingly, standard supercomputing stands at some extent the place it’s geared to develop even additional in its efficiency skills – making exaflop-scale efficiency extra common amongst supercomputers, and approaching zettascale computing. It is, nonetheless, additionally tipped to make method for the early levels of quantum computing, which may take excessive efficiency computing to the subsequent degree.

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