Frontier (supercomputer)

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Frontier
OperatorsOak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy
LocationOak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (planned)
Power30 MW
Space2225 m2 (7,300 sq ft)
Speed>1.5 exaFLOPS (estimated speed)[1]
CostUS$600M (estimated cost)
PurposeScientific 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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  2. ^ Wells, Jack (2018-03-19). "Powering the Road to National HPC Leadership". OpenPOWER Summit 2018.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "DOE Under Secretary for Science Dabbar's Exascale Update". insideHPC. Archived from the original on 2020-10-28.
  5. ^ "US Closes in on Exascale: Frontier Installation Is Underway". HPC Wire. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  6. ^ "First Look At Oak Ridge's "Frontier" Exascaler, Contrasted To Argonne's "Aurora"". Next Platform. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  7. ^ "FRONTIER Spec Sheet" (PDF). Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Leadership Computing Facility. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-11-08. Retrieved 8 Nov 2019.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "AMD Preparing More Linux Code For The Frontier Supercomputer". Archived from the original on 2021-05-28.
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