Air Force Research Lab Unveils Newest Supercomputer, 'Raider,' With 12 PetaFLOPS Capacity
HPCWire, Wednesday, September 20,2023
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is now home to its newest supercomputer, named the Raider. The FY21 technology insertion, or TI-21, system is part of the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
While Raider is housed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, it also serves as a national resource as the Air Force, Army and Navy each have access to Raider's supercomputing capabilities.
The TI-21 system, named in honor of the Doolittle Raiders, can calculate about 12 petaFLOPS, or floating-point operations, per second. In comparison, the previous supercomputer, Thunder, installed in 2015, calculated only 3.1 petaFLOPS, or 3,126,240,000,000,000 floating point operations, per second.