{"id":140017,"date":"2022-05-31T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/worlds-first-exascale-supercomputer-frontier-smashes-speed-records"},"modified":"2022-05-31T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:22:42","slug":"worlds-first-exascale-supercomputer-frontier-smashes-speed-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/worlds-first-exascale-supercomputer-frontier-smashes-speed-records","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first exascale supercomputer Frontier smashes speed records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-exascale-supercomputer-frontier-smashes-speed-records2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24031990-300-could-the-worlds-mightiest-computers-be-too-complicated-to-use\/\">first exascale computer<\/a>, capable of performing a billion billion operations per second, has been built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US.<\/p>\n<p>A typical laptop is only capable of a few teraflops, or a trillion operations per second, which is a million times less. The exaflop machine, called Frontier, could help solve a range of complex scientific problems, such as accurate climate modelling, nuclear fusion simulation and drug discovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrontier will offer modelling and simulation capabilities at the highest level of computing performance,\u201d says Thomas Zacharia at ORNL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first exascale computer, capable of performing a billion billion operations per second, has been built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US. A typical laptop is only capable of a few teraflops, or a trillion operations per second, which is a million times less. The exaflop machine, called Frontier, could help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140017","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}