A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1
insideHPC, Monday, November 13,2023
Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list.
Not only are there four new systems among top 10, the most new entrants at the top of the ranking in years, but one of them, the no. 2 Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, fell short of exascale expectations, registering a High Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark of 585 petaflops. This means the incumbent no. 1 system since May 2022, the Frontier exascale system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, remains on top at 1.2 exaflops.