Aurora (supercomputer)
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Operators | U.S. Department of Energy |
Location | Argonne Leadership Computing Facility |
Power | 24.6 MW |
Speed | 585.34 petaFLOPS (Rmax) / 1.09 exaFLOPS (Rpeak)[1] |
Cost | US$500 million (estimated cost) |
Purpose | Scientific research and development |
Website | https://www.anl.gov/aurora |
Aurora is a
The cost was estimated in 2019 to be US$500 million.[3] Olivier Franza is the chief architect and principal investigator of this design.[4]
History
In 2013 DOE presented their
In October 2020, DOE said that Aurora would be delayed again for a further six months, and would no longer be the first exascale computer in the US.[8] In late October 2021 Intel announced that Aurora would now exceed 2 exaFLOPS in peak double-precision compute.[9] The system was fully installed on June 22, 2023.[10]
In November 2023, Aurora appeared at number two on the Top500 supercomputer list, with a performance of 585 petaFLOPS. Aurora's Top500 entry included only half of the hardware, as Top500 stated in their November 2023 newsletter.[11][12][13] Aurora is still expected to exceed 2 exaFLOPS of performance once the entire system has been brought online and optimizations have been made, exceeding Frontier as the #1 supercomputer on Top500, as optimizing supercomputers can lead to significant performance improvements.[12]
Usage
Functions include research on
Architecture
Aurora has over nine thousand nodes, with each node being composed of two Intel
The machine is estimated to consume around 60 MW of power.[20] For comparison, the fastest computer in the world today, Frontier uses 21 MW while Summit uses 13 MW.
See also
- ARM supercomputers
- El Capitan (supercomputer)
- Fugaku (supercomputer)
- List of fastest computers
- TOP500
External links
References
- ^ "TOP500 November 2023". November 13, 2023. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
- ^ Zarley, B. David (March 18, 2019). "America's first exascale supercomputer to be built by 2021". The Verge. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- ^ "Intel and Cray are building a $500 million 'exascale' supercomputer for Argonne National Lab". Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Intel Corporation, "Architecting the Future of Supercomputing", https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/architecting-future-supercomputing.html#gs.4sfi85
- ^ "DOE Exascale Initiative" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 30, 2021.
- ^ Burt, Jeff. "Intel, Cray Awarded $200 Million to Build Powerful Supercomputer". eWEEK. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- ^ "The Argonne National Laboratory Supercomputer will Enable High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Exascale by 2021". Archived from the original on March 19, 2019.
- ^ Black, Doug. "DOE Under Secretary for Science Dabbar's Exascale Update: Frontier to Be First, Aurora to Be Monitored". insideHPC. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
- ^ "Intel Innovation Spotlights New Products, Technology and Tools for..." Intel. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ Intel Corproation, "Aurora Supercomputer Blade Installation Complete", https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/aurora-supercomputer-blade-installation-complete.html#gs.20v5fr
- ^ "Intel Data Center GPU Max Series Overview". Intel. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
- ^ a b Shilov, Anton. "The Aurora Supercomputer Is Installed: 2 ExaFLOPS, Tens of Thousands of CPUs and GPUs". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
- ^ "Aurora - HPE Cray EX - Intel Exascale Compute Blade, Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz, Intel Data Center GPU Max, Slingshot-11 | TOP500". www.top500.org. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
- ^ "Using Exascale Supercomputers to Make Clean Fusion Energy Possible". September 2, 2022. Archived from the original on December 29, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ Johnson, Rob. "Aurora Supercomputer to Assist in the Fight Against Cancer". TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ a b "Energy Department to spend 200 million on new aurora supercomputer". NBC News. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ "Aurora, Argonne supercomputer will be the most powerful in the U.S., will be installed at Argonne National Laboratory in the Chicago area". Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Papka, Michael (December 8, 2020), IEEE Chicago and ACM Chicago webinar: Supercomputing and ALCF - Dec 7 2020, archived from the original on November 15, 2021, retrieved December 9, 2020
- ^ "Intel's 2021 Exascale Vision in Aurora". anandtech. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ "How Argonne Is Preparing for Exascale in 2022". HPCwire. September 8, 2021. Archived from the original on June 5, 2022. Retrieved June 14, 2022.