Argonne's Aurora Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier
HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024
The Aurora supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has officially surpassed the exascale threshold, measuring over a quintillion calculations per second on the new Top500 list.
The results were announced today at the ISC High Performance 2024 conference in Hamburg, Germany.
In its latest submission to the semi-annual list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Aurora registered 1.012 exaflops using 87% of the system's 10,624 nodes. After making its Top500 debut in November 2023, the Argonne system retained its spot as the second fastest supercomputer and joined DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier as the world's second exascale machine. Aurora also earned the top spot in a measure of artificial intelligence (AI) performance, achieving 10.6 exaflops on the HPL-MxP benchmark.