TapTechNews May 14th news, the latest Top500 supercomputer list has been released. In this biannual updated list, the Frontier supercomputer once again ranks first, while the Aurora supercomputer, although breaking the exaflop (EFlop/s) level barrier, still ranks second.
In this Top500 list, only one change in the top ten:
The Alps supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre debuted at sixth place on the list with a Rmax LINPACK FP64 performance of 270PFlop/s, pushing the Sierra supercomputer based on IBM POWER9 processors and NVIDIA Volta GV100 computing cards out of the top ten.
On the top end, Frontier slightly improved its performance to 1.206EFlop/s.
Meanwhile, Aurora made significant progress as the supercomputer based on Intel Xeon processors and Data Center GPU Max increased its performance from 585.34PFlop/s to 1012PFlop/s (based on 87% of system size);
However, Aurora's power consumption also increased from 14.687MW to 38.698MW, much higher than Frontier's current 22.786MW.
In the Green500 efficiency list, the NVIDIA Grace-Hopper Superchip emerged as the biggest winner, with three systems based on this hardware solution ranking in the top three for energy efficiency, including the JEDI in Germany, the Isambard-AI phase one in the UK, and the Helios GPU in Poland.
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