Frontier (supercomputer)

For other uses, see Frontier (disambiguation).
Frontier
Active
  • Deployment: Sep. 2021
  • Completion: May 2022
OperatorsOak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy
LocationOak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
Power22.7 MW[1]
Operating systemHPE Cray OS
Space680 m2 (7,300 sq ft)
Speed1.206 exaFLOPS (Rmax) / 1.71481 exaFLOPS (Rpeak)[1]
CostUS$600 million (estimated cost)
PurposeScientific research and development
Websitewww.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/ Edit this at Wikidata

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5, is the world's first exascale supercomputer. It is hosted at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) in Tennessee, United States and became operational in 2022. As of December 2023, Frontier is the world's fastest supercomputer. It is based on the Cray EX and is the successor to Summit (OLCF-4). Frontier achieved an Rmax of 1.102 exaFLOPS, which is 1.102 quintillion floating-point operations per second, using AMD CPUs and GPUs.[2][3][4][5][6]

Measured at 62.86 gigaflops/watt, the smaller Frontier TDS (test and development system) topped the Green500 list for most efficient supercomputer[6] until it was dethroned in efficiency by the Flatiron Institute's Henri supercomputer in November 2022.[7]

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