The US replaces Japan as the leader on Top500 supercomputer list with AMD-powered Frontier

[midian182]

What just happened? The most powerful supercomputer in the world no longer comes from Japan: it's a machine from the United States powered by AMD hardware. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier is also the world's first official exascale supercomputer, reaching 1.102 ExaFlop/s during its sustained Linpack run.

Japan's A64X-based Fugaku system had held the number one spot on the Top500 list for the last two years with its 442 petaflops of performance. Frontier smashed that record by achieving 1.1 ExaFlops in the Linpack FP64 benchmark, though the system's peak performance is rated at 1.69 ExaFlops.

Frontier has some impressive specs: its 74 cabinets each weigh 8,000 pounds and are packed with 9,408 HPE Cray EX nodes. Each node is powered by an AMD "Trento" 7A53 Epyc CPU alongside four AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X GPUs and 512 GB of DDR4 memory. That equates to 602,112 CPU cores and 4.6 petabytes of DDR4 memory. Additionally, the 37,888 GPUs feature 8,138,240 cores and have 4.6 petabytes of HBM memory (128GB per GPU).

The liquid-cooled system also utilize 200 Gbit/second Slingshot-11 interconnect fabric and features 37 petabytes of node-local storage, 716 petabytes of center-wide storage, 75 TB/s of throughput, and 15 billion IOPS of performance. Its power efficiency has also earned it the number one spot on the Green500 list, thanks to the 52.23 gigaflops per watt.

Frontier taking the top spot means American systems are now in first, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth positions in the top ten of the Top500. AMD powers five of the top ten machines, while Intel powers just one—China's Tianhe-2A, which uses Xeon E5-2692v2 Ivy Bridge CPUs.

Although Frontier is the first official exascale computer, two Chinese computers— Sunway Oceanlite and Tianhe-3—are believed to have already broken the 1 ExaFlop barrier, reaching 1.3 ExaFlops in the Linpack benchmark, but the computers have not been submitted to the Top500 list.

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[Irata]

Wasn‘t Frontier supposed to be the second Exaflop system a year after the first ?

Sarcasm aside, this is a great achievement, particularly considering Frontier‘s efficiency.

 

[punctualturn]

 

[SwitchPlayBox]

Great news!

 

[netman]

"Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier is also the world's first official exascale supercomputer, reaching 1.102 ExaFlop/s during its sustained Linpack run."

It won't last long as another facility, most likely in China will take over...!

 

[DSirius]

Great achievement for AMD indeed.

 

[Avro Arrow]

"Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier is also the world's first official exascale supercomputer, reaching 1.102 ExaFlop/s during its sustained Linpack run."

It won't last long as another facility, most likely in China will take over...!

And then El Capitan will come out and take the crown back. It's a never-ending cycle.

 

[elementalSG]

But, can it run Crysis?

All kidding aside, 1.1 ExaFLOPS (that’s 27,500X the performance of a 40 TeraFLOP NVidia RTX 3090 Ti) is absolutely mind-blowing!

 

[Avro Arrow]

"Frontier taking the top spot means American systems are now in first, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth positions in the top ten of the Top500."

Why would anyone care about this? Are Americans just hard-wired to be jingiostic? If there's ever a supercomputer Olympics then this might matter. As it is now, it does not.

And here I thought techspot was above this kind of crap.

 

[wiyosaya]

And then El Capitan will come out and take the crown back. It's a never-ending cycle.

Competition is a good thing!

EDIT: It looks like El Capitan is also another AMD project and might reach 2 Exaflops.

 

[wiyosaya]

To paraphrase that old NASA Announcer (announcing a moon launch, I think) for Lisa Su - Keep Goin' Baby!

 

[wiyosaya]

"Frontier taking the top spot means American systems are now in first, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth positions in the top ten of the Top500."

Why would anyone care about this? Are Americans just hard-wired to be jingiostic? If there's ever a supercomputer Olympics then this might matter. As it is now, it does not.

And here I thought techspot was above this kind of crap.

Its a factoid for those who play Trivial Pursuit.

 

[JGert]

Was the first thing that crossed my mind. You beat me to it!

But, can it run Crysis?

All kidding aside, 1.1 ExaFLOPS (that’s 27,500X the performance of a 40 TeraFLOP NVidia RTX 3090 Ti) is absolutely mind-blowing!

 

[psycros]

"Frontier taking the top spot means American systems are now in first, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth positions in the top ten of the Top500."

Why would anyone care about this? Are Americans just hard-wired to be jingiostic? If there's ever a supercomputer Olympics then this might matter. As it is now, it does not.

And here I thought techspot was above this kind of crap.

Jealously is such an ugly emotion

 

[captaincranky]

And then El Capitan will come out and take the crown back. It's a never-ending cycle.

Excuse me but, "El Capitan", is a mountain somewhere in California:

I'm sure Trump would have liked to have it carved into a bust of himself. Thankfully, sunny California is a blue state

 

[Gmn17]

Finally, exaflop

 

[nodfor]

What hashrates does it get

 

[Avro Arrow]

Excuse me but, "El Capitan", is a mountain somewhere in California:

I'm sure Trump would have liked to have it carved into a bust of himself. Thankfully, sunny California is a blue state

That's really beautiful! I guess that this is what they're naming the computer after. They could definitely do worse.

 

[DZillaXx]

"Frontier taking the top spot means American systems are now in first, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth positions in the top ten of the Top500."

Why would anyone care about this? Are Americans just hard-wired to be jingiostic? If there's ever a supercomputer Olympics then this might matter. As it is now, it does not.

And here I thought techspot was above this kind of crap.

Why do you care about it?

They stated a simple fact, yet you are the one who is triggered by it...

People these days....

 

[Avro Arrow]

Why do you care about it?

They stated a simple fact, yet you are the one who is triggered by it...

People these days....

Whether you like it or not, I'm not wrong.

People these days....

 

[punctualturn]

And then El Capitan

Also ALL AMD powered

https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2020-03-04-next-generation-amd-epyc-cpus-and-radeon-instinct-gpus-enable-el-capitan

Excuse me but, "El Capitan", is a mountain somewhere in California:

Yeap and another hint: Apple switched from big cats to locations in California, for the names used in OSX/MacOS.

 

[DZillaXx]

Whether you like it or not, I'm not wrong.

People these days....

I mean you are not wrong in the sense that you got triggered by some facts... Information that was not listed to push some patriotic agenda. Not everything is political or Pro/Anti US/China.

 

[captaincranky]

What hashrates does it get

Oh, I'm sure it would "hash up a storm", even as a background process. Now all you have to do, is figure out how to come up with the tens of thousands of dollars per hour it would cost to rent time on it

 

[captaincranky]

Each node is powered by an AMD "Trento" 7A53 Epyc CPU alongside four AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X GPUs and 512 GB of DDR4 memory.

I guess even they're waiting for the price of DDR-5 to come down..

 

[punctualturn]

But, can it run Crysis?

All kidding aside, 1.1 ExaFLOPS (that’s 27,500X the performance of a 40 TeraFLOP NVidia RTX 3090 Ti) is absolutely mind-blowing!

Actually....