Frontier, a supercomputer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the first capable a billion billion operations per second. It accounts for a quarter of all computing power on the TOP500 list of supercomputers
, capable of performing a billion billion operations per second, has been built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
A typical laptop is only capable of a few teraflops, or a trillion operations per second, which is a million times less. The exaflop machine, called Frontier, could help solve a range of complex scientific problems, such as accurate climate modelling, nuclear fusion simulation and drug discovery. “Frontier will offer modelling and simulation capabilities at the highest level of computing performance,” says Thomas Zacharia at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.The Frontier computing system is housed in 74 separate cabinets, comprising 9400 CPUs, or standard computer processors, and 37,000
GPUs, which are processors designed to render 3D graphics but can also be used for a range of other tasksThis means the machine has a total of 8,730,112 cores capable of parallel computing tasks; a typical laptop has between five and nine. At peak power, the computer generates so much heat that it requires four high-powered pumps to push more than 25,000 litres of water around the machine each minute.
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