News US requests proposals for next-gen Discovery supercomputer — will be up to five times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, arrive in 2027

[Admin]

ORNL's Discovery supercomputer could offer up to 6 ExaFLOPS performance.

US requests proposals for next-gen Discovery supercomputer — will be up to five times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, arrive in 2027 : Read more

 

[ttquantia]

"Faster" has not been the term used in comparing supercomputers in the last decades. It used to be, back then when Cray XMP or similar was much faster than mass-produced CPUs. Nowadays the most descriptive measure is simply the number of CPUs and GPUs (together with information of how capable those GPUs are.) Which of course everybody understands.

 

[Taslios]

"Faster" has not been the term used in comparing supercomputers in the last decades. It used to be, back then when Cray XMP or similar was much faster than mass-produced CPUs. Nowadays the most descriptive measure is simply the number of CPUs and GPUs (together with information of how capable those GPUs are.) Which of course everybody understands.

Except speed is exactly how Top500.org classifies supercomputers.. Exascale means the system is capable of 1 quintillion calculations per second... calculations per second is a measurement of speed...

 

[Taslios]

With all the reported problems and delays on AURORA... i wonder if intel will even apply....