{"id":139987,"date":"2022-05-30T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/us-retakes-first-place-from-japan-on-top500-supercomputer-ranking"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:22:40","slug":"us-retakes-first-place-from-japan-on-top500-supercomputer-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/us-retakes-first-place-from-japan-on-top500-supercomputer-ranking","title":{"rendered":"US retakes first place from Japan on Top500 supercomputer ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-retakes-first-place-from-japan-on-top500-supercomputer-ranking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ORNL\u2019s Frontier HPE Cray EX with AMD CPUs is the \u2018first true exascale machine.\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The United States is on top of the supercomputing world in the <a href=\"https:\/\/top500.org\/news\/ornls-frontier-first-to-break-the-exaflop-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top500 ranking<\/a> of the most powerful systems. The Frontier system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) running on AMD EPYC CPUs took first place from last year\u2019s champ, Japan\u2019s ARM A64X <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/japan-fugaku-supercomputer-013121699.html\">Fugaku system<\/a>. It\u2019s still in the integration and testing process at the ORNL in Tennessee, but will eventually be operated by the US Air Force and US Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier, powered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise\u2019s (HPE) Cray EX platform, was the top machine by a wide margin, too. It\u2019s the first (known) true exascale system, hitting a peak 1.1 exaflops on the Linmark benchmark. Fugaku, meanwhile, managed less than half that at 442 petaflops, which was still enough to keep it in first place for the previous two years.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier was also the most efficient supercomputer, too. Running at just 52.23 gigaflops per watt, it beat out Japan\u2019s MN-3 system to grab first place on the Green500 list. \u201cThe fact that the world\u2019s fastest machine is also the most energy efficient is just simply amazing,\u201d ORNL lab director Thomas Zacharia said at a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORNL\u2019s Frontier HPE Cray EX with AMD CPUs is the \u2018first true exascale machine.\u2019 The United States is on top of the supercomputing world in the Top500 ranking of the most powerful systems. The Frontier system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) running on AMD EPYC CPUs took first place from last year\u2019s champ, Japan\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}