{"id":62258,"date":"2022-05-31T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=62258"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:52:53","slug":"american-supercomputer-tops-top500-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/american-supercomputer-tops-top500-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"American supercomputer tops Top500 ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Top500 ranking of the world&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier remains in the process of integration and testing. Its creation cost $600 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the future the supercomputer will be operated by the United States Air Force and the United States Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Previously the top spot in the Top500 ranking was held by the Japanese installation Fugaku. Its performance stands at 442 petaflops.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?19\" data-telegram-post=\"forklogAI\/463\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In January, Meta announced the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/meta-to-build-the-worlds-largest-ai-supercomputer\">the largest supercomputer in the world<\/a> with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, American scientists unveiled an AI supercomputer that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/a-new-ai-supercomputer-will-create-the-largest-3d-map-of-the-observable-universe\">will help build the largest-ever 3D map of the visible universe<\/a> for studying dark energy.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog News on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the latest in the AI world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Top500 ranking of the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers is led by the American Frontier system, developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This is the first installation to reach a peak of 1.1 exaflops in the Linmark test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,634],"class_list":["post-62258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-supercomputers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62259,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62258\/revisions\/62259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}