In the Top500 ranking of the most powerful systems, the United States stands at the top of the supercomputing world. Last year's winner, Japan's ARM A64X Fugaku system, was defeated by the Frontier system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which ran on AMD EPYC CPUs. The ORNL in Tennessee is still putting it together and testing it, but the US Air Force and Department of Energy will eventually run it. Frontier, which was powered by HPE's Cray EX platform, was also the most powerful system by a long shot. It's the first (known) real exascale system, with a peak
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Fugaku still reigns as the world’s fastest supercomputer
Fugaku still reigns as the world’s fastest supercomputer
The June 2021 TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers has Fugaku ranked at number one, attaining the top slot for the third time and still three times faster than any other. Credit: Fujitsu
Fugaku, the supercomputer built by Fujitsu, remains at number one in the TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, where it is still three times faster than the nearest competition.
The contest for the fastest remains tight, with only one new entry into the top 10 on the latest list Perlmutter, at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC