Frontier, which turned the primary exascale supercomputer in June and ranked primary among the many quickest on this planet, retained that title within the new TOP500 semiannual record of the world’s quickest.
With none improve in its velocity—1.102EFLOP/s—Frontier nonetheless managed to attain 2.5 instances sooner that the quantity two finisher, Fugaku, which additionally got here in second within the June rankings. An exascale laptop is one that may carry out 1018 (one quintillion) floating level operations per second (1 exaFLOP/s).
Regardless of doubling its most velocity because it was ranked quantity three in June, the Lumi supercomputer remained in third-place.
There was only one new member of the top-ten record, and that was Leonardo, which got here in fourth after ending a distant 150th within the TOP500 rankings in June.
Along with rating primary for flat-out velocity, Frontier additionally ranked because the supercomputer rating highest in a check of its suitability for doing synthetic intelligence (AI) features, a classification generally known as HPL-MxP. The pure velocity measurement is called the Excessive Efficiency Linpack (HPL) benchmark, which measures how effectively programs remedy a dense system of linear equations.
Listed here are the highest ten on the November 2022 TOP500 record:
#1—Frontier
An HPE Cray EX system run by the US Division of Vitality, Frontier incorporates third Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs representing 8,730,112 cores which have been optimized for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI with AMD Intuition™ 250X accelerators and Slingshot-11 interconnects. Its HPL benchmark was 1.102EFLOP/s.
#2—Fugaku
Supercomputer Fugaku, housed on the RIKEN Middle for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, scored 442.01PFLOP/s within the HPL check. It’s constructed on the Fujitsu A64FX microprocessor and has 7,630,848 cores.
#3—LUMI
LUMI is an HPE Cray EX system on the EuroHPC heart at CSC in Kajaani, Finland, with a efficiency of 151.9 PFLOP/s. It depends on AMD processors and boasts 2,220,288 cores.
#4—Leonardo
Leonardo, which resides in Bolbogna, Italy, is an Intel/Nvidia system with 1,463,616 cores and a most velocity of 174.70PFLOP/s.
#5—Summit
An IBM system at Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory in Tennessee, Summit scored 148.8 PFLOP/s on the HPL benchmark. It has 4,356 nodes, every with two Power9 CPUs with 22 cores and 6 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs, every with 80 streaming multiprocessors (SM). The nodes are linked by a Mellanox dual-rail EDR InfiniBand community. It has 2,414,592 cores.
#6—Sierra
Related in structure to Summit, Sierra reached 94.6 PFLOP/s. It has 4,320 nodes with two Power9 CPUs and 4 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs and a complete of 1,572,480 cores. It’s housed on the Lawrence Livermore Nationwide Laboratory, in California.
#7—Sunway TaihuLight
Sunway TaihuLight is a machine developed by Nationwide Analysis Middle of Parallel Laptop Engineering & Know-how (NRCPC) in China and is put in within the metropolis of Wuxi. It reached 93PFLOP/s on the HPL benchmark. It has 10,649,600 cores.
#8—Perlmutter
The Perlmutter system is predicated on the HPE Cray Shasta platform and is a heterogeneous system with each AMD EPYC-based nodes and 1536 Nvidia A100-accelerated nodes. It has 761,856 cores. It achieved 70.87 PFLOP/s. That’s an enchancment of about 6PFLOP/s over final yr’s rating, however nonetheless not sufficient to catch Sunway TaihuLight.
#9—Selene
Selene is an Nvidia DGX A100 SuperPOD primarily based on an AMD EPYC processor with Nvidia A100s for acceleration and a Mellanox HDR InfiniBand as a community. It has 555,520 cores. It achieved 63.4 PFLOP/s and is put in in-house at Nvidia amenities within the US.
#10—Tianhe-2A (Milky Manner-2A)
Powered by Intel Xeon CPUs and NUDT’s Matrix-2000 DSP accelerators, Tianhe-2A has 4,981,760 cores within the system to attain 61.4 Pflop/s. It was developed by China’s Nationwide College of Protection Know-how (NUDT) and is deployed on the Nationwide Supercomputer Middle in Guangzhou, China.
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