{"id":31244,"date":"2022-05-31T23:26:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/us-supercomputer-becomes-first-to-enter-exascale-status\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T23:26:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:26:30","slug":"us-supercomputer-becomes-first-to-enter-exascale-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/us-supercomputer-becomes-first-to-enter-exascale-status\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supercomputer Becomes First to Enter Exascale Status"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though the US may be lagging<\/span> behind<\/span> other countries in terms of consumer broadband and wireless speeds, it can now at least claim the mantle as the top dog of supercomputers. Well, maybe<\/span> anyway.<\/p>\n

That’s thanks to Frontier, a new supercomputer developed by<\/span> Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) which this week became the first machine capable<\/span> of demonstrating \u201cexascale\u201d performance, a highly coveted computing benchmark roughly equivalent to one quintillion operations per second. That mind-boggling number comes out to roughly a billion, billion calculations.<\/p>\n

With the demonstrations, ORNL says Frontier stands out as the world’s first true exascale machine. Frontier finished first in this year’s Top500 rankings<\/span> measuring the world’s most powerful systems. That’s big news for ORNL, but potentially even bigger news from the US science and defense apparatus which has spent years investing<\/span> to beat out rival countries in developing similar high-performance computers.<\/p>\n

Researchers behind Frontier believe its hefty new computing power could solve complex scientific problems and potentially lead to breakthroughs in climate modeling, drug discovery, and other crucial areas. Though still in testing, ORNL will reportedly eventually see use by the US Air Force and US Department of Energy in 2023. The DOE previously pledged<\/span> $ 1.8 billion to build three machines capable of exascale performance.<\/p>\n