American supercomputer tops Top500 ranking

The Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is led by the American system Frontier, developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This marks the first installation to reach a peak of 1.1 exaflops in the Linmark test.

The system runs on AMD EPYC 64C processors clocked at 2 GHz, optimised for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The supercomputer is equipped with AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators and has 8.7 million cores.

Frontier remains in the process of integration and testing. Its creation cost $600 million.

In the future the supercomputer will be operated by the United States Air Force and the United States Department of Energy.

Previously the top spot in the Top500 ranking was held by the Japanese installation Fugaku. Its performance stands at 442 petaflops.

In January, Meta announced the creation of the largest supercomputer in the world with artificial intelligence.

In May 2021, American scientists unveiled an AI supercomputer that will help build the largest-ever 3D map of the visible universe for studying dark energy.

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