The United States regains the first place from Japan in the ranking of the top 500 supercomputers

The United States leads the supercomputing world in the Top500 ranking of the most powerful systems, and the Frontier system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) running on AMD EPYC CPUs took first place from last year’s champion, Japan’s ARM A64X Fugaku software, and does not compete in the integration process The test is at ORNL in Tennessee, but has been officially released in the previous version by American Airlines and the US Department of Energy, according to an engadged report.

Powered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Cray EX platform, the Frontier was the top device by a large margin as well, and it’s the first (known) true exascale system, reaching a peak of 1.1 exaflops on the Lynmark scale. achieving less than half that at 442 petaflops, which was enough to keep him in the top spot over the two seasonal years.

The Frontier was also the most efficient supercomputer as well, running at 52.23 gigaflops per watt, overtaking Japan’s MN-3 system to take first place on the Green500 list, and Thomas Zakaria, director of the ORNL Laboratory, said at a press conference: “The fact that the world’s fastest machine is also the most The energy efficiency is simply amazing.”

Other hardware in the TOP10 is another HPE Cray EX installation at EuroHPC in Finland (151.9 petaflops), using the IBM-designed top using 22 cores (NVIDIA Tesla V100 CPUs (148.8 petaflops) and Lawrence Livermore Sierra, which is smaller – The peak version, which reached 94.6 Pflop / sec.

China ranked in the national top ten with Sunway TaihuLight from the National Research Center for Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) and Tianhe-2A built by China National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), however China is already rumored to have at least two exascale systems (for Linmark standard) The new Sunway Oceanlite and Tianhe-3 systems, and given the current state