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The US Frontier is the world’s fastest supercomputer

The US Frontier is the world’s fastest supercomputer

Frontier Named Second Consecutive World’s Fastest Supercomputer in Top 500 List (ORNL at Wikimedia Commons/OLCF)

A supercomputer developed in the United States, the borderIt defended its title as the world’s fastest in the twice-yearly rankings by international experts published on Monday (14).

Frontier, operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, It topped the Top500 list with 1.1 quintillion cycles per second.

oh Fugaku From Japan It came second with 442 quadrillion cycles per second. The Japanese supercomputer, developed by research firms Riken and Fujitsu, topped the list four times in a row before losing to Frontier in the last ranking in May.

system Lumi from Finland took third place.

The China is creating his successors Tianhe-2 and Sunway TaihuLight, both of which topped the Top500 list at one point, and are believed to have created a system that surpassed Fugaku. The Europe is investing heavily in exascale and other high-performance computing technologies.

Supercomputers are mission critical Extreme dataSuch as the development of artificial intelligence.

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