{"id":144938,"date":"2022-08-27T02:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/wickedly-fast-frontier-supercomputer-officially-ushers-in-the-next-era-of-computing"},"modified":"2022-08-27T02:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T07:22:54","slug":"wickedly-fast-frontier-supercomputer-officially-ushers-in-the-next-era-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/wickedly-fast-frontier-supercomputer-officially-ushers-in-the-next-era-of-computing","title":{"rendered":"Wickedly Fast Frontier Supercomputer Officially Ushers in the Next Era of Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wickedly-fast-frontier-supercomputer-officially-ushers-in-the-next-era-of-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory\u2019s Frontier supercomputer was crowned fastest on the planet in the semiannual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top500.org\/\">Top500<\/a> list. Frontier more than doubled the speed of the last titleholder, Japan\u2019s Fugaku supercomputer, and is the first to officially clock speeds over a quintillion calculations a second\u2014a milestone computing has pursued for 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a big number. So before we go on, it\u2019s worth putting into more human terms.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine giving all 7.9 billion people on the planet a pencil and a list of simple arithmetic or multiplication problems. Now, ask everyone to solve one problem per second for four and half years. By marshaling the math skills of the Earth\u2019s population for a half-decade, you\u2019ve now solved over a quintillion problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory\u2019s Frontier supercomputer was crowned fastest on the planet in the semiannual Top500 list. Frontier more than doubled the speed of the last titleholder, Japan\u2019s Fugaku supercomputer, and is the first to officially clock speeds over a quintillion calculations a second\u2014a milestone computing has pursued for 14 years. That\u2019s a big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144938","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}