{"id":172498,"date":"2023-09-21T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/whats-next-for-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers"},"modified":"2023-09-21T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:22:27","slug":"whats-next-for-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/whats-next-for-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next for the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-next-for-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some more specs: Frontier uses approximately 50,000 processors, compared with the most powerful laptop\u2019s 16 or 24. It consumes 20 million watts, compared with a laptop\u2019s 65 or so. It cost $600 million to build.<\/p>\n<p>When Frontier came online, it marked the dawn of so-called exascale computing, with machines that can execute an exaflop\u2014or a quintillion (10<sup>18<\/sup>) floating point operations a second. Since then, scientists have geared up to make more of these blazingly fast computers: several exascale machines are due to come online in the US and Europe in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some more specs: Frontier uses approximately 50,000 processors, compared with the most powerful laptop\u2019s 16 or 24. It consumes 20 million watts, compared with a laptop\u2019s 65 or so. It cost $600 million to build. When Frontier came online, it marked the dawn of so-called exascale computing, with machines that can execute an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172498","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}