Frontier supercomputer includes 74 HPE Cray EX computer cabinets 

Recently, the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory was recognized as the first system to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, equivalent to the ability to solve billions of billions of calculations per second.

In the Top500 ranking, Frontier overtook Japan's Fugaku to become the world's most powerful supercomputer. This is an achievement of American science and defense after many years investing with the aim to regain the position of the country that owning the most powerful supercomputer.

Frontier is made up of 74 Cray EX supercomputer cabinets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), each weighing about 3.6 tons, more than 9,400 nodes (systems with multiple CPUs, GPUs, RAM... are connected to form a supercomputer) provided by AMD with EPYC CPU and GPU Instinct. The amount of cables with a total length of more than 144.8 km, need about 22,700 liters of water flows through the system every minute.

Research team at ORNL say Frontier can help solve complex scientific questions, bring breakthroughs in climate research, drug development and other key areas. After the testing phase, Frontier is expected to be used by the Department of US Energy and US Air Force from 2023.

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