By Jeffrey Cohen, @chicago_quantum, Founder of Chicago Quantum. June 10, 2019 Seven facts about Frontier (from the sources): - Weighs over a million pounds - Performance equals the world's top 160 fastest supercomputers. - Performance of 1.5 exaflops, equals 1.5 quintillion operations per second, equals 1.5 x billion x billion operations per second. - Partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S. Department of Energy, Cray and AMD, with a Cray contract including $6oom for a CoE, early delivery systems, the main Frontier system, and multi-year system support. - Cray Programming Environment (Cray PE) will be enhanced in 3 ways: enhanced high-level software development environment, integrated with AMD technology with Cray Slingshot to take better advantage of the hardware, and integrated with a full machine-learning software stack. - Establish a Center of Excellence by Cray and Oak Ridge National Lab Frontier will be based on Cray's architecture, AMD's CPU and GPU technologies. - Lawrence Livermore Lab will have an exascale computer too (pre-announced), and Argonne National Lab's Aurora @ 1.0 exaflops was recently announced (Intel and Cray for $500M). Sources: https://www.cray.com/resources/how-frontier-measures-up https://www.cray.com/blog/doe-and-cray-announce-exascale-supercomputer-frontier/#comment-757096 http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2397457 Implications: While Energy Secretary Rick Perry discusses how we will 'win' the race to develop quantum computers, he is ensuring the U.S. has access to exascale classical computing too.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Jeff CohenStrategic IT Management Consultant with a strong interest in Quantum Computing. Consulting for 29 years and this looks as interesting as cloud computing was in 2010. Archives
February 2021
|