Frontier (supercomputer)
Operators | Oak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy |
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Location | Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (planned) |
Power | 30 MW |
Space | 2225 m2 (7,300 sq ft) |
Speed | >1.5 exaFLOPS (estimated speed)[1] |
Cost | US$600M (estimated cost) |
Purpose | Scientific research |
Frontier or OLCF-5 is an exascale supercomputer being developed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. It will be the United States' first exascale computer with a target computation performance of ~1.5 exaFLOPS.[2][3][4] It is being built at a cost of US$600 million. The machine began deployment in 2021[5] and is expected to reach full capability in 2022.[6]
It is expected to use a combination of AMD Epyc CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs, consume 30 MW, and occupy 100 19-inch (48 cm) rack cabinets.[7][8][9]
Frontier will have coherent interconnects between CPUs and GPUs, allowing GPU memory to be accessed coherently by code running on the Epyc CPUs.[10]
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- ^ Wells, Jack (2018-03-19). "Powering the Road to National HPC Leadership". OpenPOWER Summit 2018.
- ^ Bethea, Katie (2018-02-13). "Frontier: OLCF'S Exascale Future – Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility". Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Leadership Computing Facility. Archived from the original on 2018-03-10.
- ^ "DOE Under Secretary for Science Dabbar's Exascale Update". insideHPC. Archived from the original on 2020-10-28.
- ^ "US Closes in on Exascale: Frontier Installation Is Underway". HPC Wire. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ "First Look At Oak Ridge's "Frontier" Exascaler, Contrasted To Argonne's "Aurora"". Next Platform. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ "FRONTIER Spec Sheet" (PDF). Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Leadership Computing Facility. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-11-08. Retrieved 8 Nov 2019.
- ^ Bright, Peter. "Cray, AMD to build 1.5 exaflops supercomputer for US government". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2019-05-07. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ Smith, Ryan. "El Capitan Supercomputer Detailed: AMD CPUs & GPUs To Drive 2 Exaflops of Compute". www.anandtech.com. Archived from the original on 2020-03-04.
- ^ "AMD Preparing More Linux Code For The Frontier Supercomputer". Archived from the original on 2021-05-28.
Categories:
- GPGPU supercomputers
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Exascale computers