Intel unveils Frontera, the world’s fastest academic supercomputer

mood · Sep 3, 2019

Intel unveils Frontera, the world’s fastest academic supercomputer
September 3, 2019
https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/03/intel-unveils-frontera-the-worlds-fastest-academic-supercomputer/

In August 2018, Dell EMC and Intel announced intentions to jointly design Frontera, an academic supercomputer funded by a $60 million grant from the National Science Foundation that would replace Stampede2 at the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
Those plans came to fruition in June when the two companies deployed Frontera, which was formally unveiled this morning.

Intel claims that Frontera can achieve peak performance of 38.7 quadrillion floating point operations per second, or petaflops, making it the world’s fastest computer designed for academic workloads like modeling and simulation, big data, and machine learning. (That’s compared with Stampede2’s peak performance of 18 petaflops.)
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