AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier
Congratulations to AMD, HPE and ORNL! This is an amazing achievement. Can&#x27;t wait to see the spectacular science results coming from this installation.<p>Intel was supposed to build the first Exascale system for ANL [1] [2]. to be installed by 2018. They completely and utterly messed up the execution, partly drive by 10nm failure, went back to the drawing board multiple times, and now Raja switched the whole thing to GPUs, a technology that Intel has no previous success with and rebased it to 2 ExaFlops peak, meaning they probably expect 1 EF sustained performance, a 50% efficiency. No other facility would ever consider Intel as a prime contractor again. ANL hitched their wagon to the wrong horse.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alcf.anl.gov&#x2F;aurora" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alcf.anl.gov&#x2F;aurora</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insidehpc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;exascale-exasperation-why-doe-gave-intel-a-2nd-chance-can-nvidia-gpus-ride-to-auroras-rescue&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insidehpc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;exascale-exasperation-why-doe-...</a>