The world’s fastest supercomputer will be built in the US by 2021, the US Department of Energy announced today.
The machine, dubbed Frontier, will be built by chip designer AMD and supercomputer manufacturer Cray for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It’s expected to produce more than 1.5 exaflops per second of processing power, and will be used for a range of tasks, performing advanced calculations in areas like nuclear and climate research.
When constructed, Frontier will be the most advanced example of what’s known as “exascale computing.” This is the next-generation of computing capacity, in which processing power is measured in exaflops, or quintillions of calculations per second. A quintillion is a one with a…
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