In the near future, the Aurora supercomputer will be ready for science at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science user facility. All 10,624 compute blades have been ...

What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just how powerful they are in relation to smaller, cheaper computers, but the level of innovation and engineering required to bring them into being in the ...

The WGN News team, led by Tom Skilling, recently took a trip to Argonne National Laboratory to meet “Aurora,” a supercomputer that’s been on the drawing board since 2015, took eight years to ...

The Aurora is the fastest artificial intelligence computer in the world. It is one million times faster than supercomputers at the turn of this century 25 years ago and 6-billion times faster than ...

Argonne National Laboratory has fully opened its Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers across the world, heralding a new era of computing-driven discoveries. Aurora is one of the world’s first ...

Collaborative Development Aurora’s deployment marks the culmination of years of collaboration. Built in partnership with Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Aurora is equipped with 63,744 GPUs ...

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The Aurora is not Argonne’s first supercomputer, but it’s the most powerful. In all, there are 160 racks, each eight feet tall, arranged in eight rows, all connected by 300 miles of cable.

Aurora was fully installed at Argonne in 2023. One of the world's most powerful supercomputers, it is capable of performing over a quintillion calculations per second.

Aurora was fully installed at Argonne in 2023. One of the world's most powerful supercomputers, it is capable of performing over a quintillion calculations per second.