Intel, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has claimed its Aurora supercomputer broke the exascale barrier at 1.012 exaflops, and additionally became the, “fastest AI system in the world dedicated to AI for open science” by achieving 10.6 AI exaflops.
Aurora lags a little way behind the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which previously achieved 1.206 exaflops, but being the second supercomputer to break the exascale barrier is a massive achievement, especially when you take into account that Aurora is still being commissioned and is not yet fully complete.
