[HN Gopher] Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken ...
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Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale
barrier
Author : mepian
Score : 11 points
Date : 2024-05-13 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.intel.com)
| Gerlo wrote:
| Aurora was supposed to go into production years ago and be the
| first exascale supercomputer. Intel is dog shit, so this kept
| getting delayed. Now they're going for the two exaflop mark. It's
| pathetic that Aurora is only now benchmarking over an exaflop,
| and it's even more pathetic than this is apparently newsworthy.
| CaliforniaKarl wrote:
| More context: This is related to today's release of the Spring
| Top 500 list (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346788).
| Aurora rated 1,012.00 PetaFLOPS/second Rmax, and is in 2nd place,
| behind Frontier.
|
| In the November 2023 list, Aurora was also in second place, with
| an Rmax of 585.34 PetaFLOPS/second.
|
| See https://www.top500.org/system/180183/ for the specs on
| Aurora, and https://www.top500.org/system/180047/ for the specs
| on Frontier.
|
| See https://www.top500.org/project/top500_description/ and
| https://www.top500.org/project/linpack/ for a description of Rmax
| and the LINPACK benchmark, by which supercomputers are generally
| ranked. The Top 500 list only includes supercomputers that are
| able to run the LINPACK benchmark, and where the owner is willing
| to publish the results.
|
| The jump in Aurora's Rmax scope is explained by Aurora's
| difficult birth. https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/5-years-
| late-only-2 (published when the November 2023 list came out) has
| a good explanation of what's been going on.
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