{"id":143805,"date":"2022-08-09T03:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/1-1-quintillion-operations-per-second-us-has-worlds-fastest-supercomputer"},"modified":"2022-08-09T03:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:57:31","slug":"1-1-quintillion-operations-per-second-us-has-worlds-fastest-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/1-1-quintillion-operations-per-second-us-has-worlds-fastest-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"1.1 quintillion operations per second: US has world\u2019s fastest supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1-1-quintillion-operations-per-second-us-has-worlds-fastest-supercomputer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US has retaken the top spot in the world supercomputer rankings with the exascale Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The Frontier system\u2019s score of 1.102 exaflop\/s makes it \u201cthe most powerful supercomputer to ever exist\u201d and \u201cthe first true exascale machine,\u201d the Top 500 project said Monday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/top500.org\/lists\/top500\/2022\/06\/\">announcement<\/a> of its latest rankings. Exaflop\/s (or exaflops) is short for 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier was more than twice as fast as a Japanese system that placed second in the rankings, which are based on the LINPACK benchmark that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top500.org\/project\/linpack\/\">measures<\/a> the \u201cperformance of a dedicated system for solving a dense system of linear equations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has retaken the top spot in the world supercomputer rankings with the exascale Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. The Frontier system\u2019s score of 1.102 exaflop\/s makes it \u201cthe most powerful supercomputer to ever exist\u201d and \u201cthe first true exascale machine,\u201d the Top 500 project said Monday in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143805","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}