The USA they came back on top of supercomputersdisplacing Japan, thanks to the new powerful Frontier supercomputer system of the Oak Rigde National Laboratory (ORNL) of the US Department of Energy in Tennessee, which topped the Top 500 ranking of the most powerful and fastest supercomputers in the world.
The Frontier is the first supercomputer that overcame the Exaflop dam (1.1 Exaflop / sec), performing over one billion billion calculations per second. The system, an HPE Cray EX, has a total of 8,730,112 cores.
In second place fell the previous holder of the first place, the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer of the RIKEN Computer Science Center, which has a power of 442 Pflop / sec and 7,630,848 cores.
In Third Place the new and bigger one went up today European supercomputer system LUMI (152 PFlop / sec) located at Finland. The second largest European supercomputer, the French Adastra at the GENCI-CINES center, for the first time entered the top ten in the world (in tenth place).
The top ten is completed by Summit (USA), Sierra (USA), Sunway TaihuLight (China), Perlmutter (USA), Selene (USA) and Tianhe-2A (China).
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