Frontier: The World's First Exascale Supercomputer Has Arrived (VIDEO)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the top ranking on May 30, 2022, as the world’s fastest on the 59th TOP500 list, with 1.1 exaflops of performance. The system is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second.

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ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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