With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot
With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spotArgonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer has officially breached the exaflop barrier, but, once again, it's fallen short of unseating Oak Ridge's Frontier system for the number one spot on this spring's Top500.
Unfortunately, when last November's Top500 rolled around, Argonne had only managed to get Linpack running on about half the system. Even half baked, the machine stillan impressive 585 petaFLOPS of double precision performance. With this spring's ranking, we're beginning to see what the system is really capable of.
One area where Intel's Aurora system falls squarely behind is power consumption. Despite using a much more modern architecture, the machine is far from the most efficient. Breaking the exaFLOP barrier required a whopping 38.6 MW of power. For reference, Frontier managed to squeeze 1.2 exaFLOPS from just 22.7 MW.
Of course, as has been made plain by Aurora's Linpack benchmarks, actually harnessing all of that compute can be quite tricky at scale. So, perhaps Aurora can still pull off an 11th hour win.While the 10 most powerful systems on the list are largely unchanged from November, with Eagle, Fugaku, and Lumi holding onto the third, fourth, and fifth places respectively, we find that Switzerland's Alps supercomputer has ousted Leonardo for the number six spot.
Coming in ninth and tenth place is Oak Ridge National Laboratory's venerable Summit and Nvidia's Eos supercomputers — not the 10k GPU version mind you, that's a different machine.
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