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Aurora uses 1,024 nodes with solid-state drives for storage, offering 220 PB of total capacity and 31 TB/s of bandwidth. The machine relies on HPE's Shasta supercomputer architecture with ...
SIX BILLION TIMES FASTER: THE AURORA SUPERCOMPUTER'S NEW HOME. Sprawling though the facility is, it’s insufficient to accommodate the beast that’s soon to land there. By sometime in 2021, if all goes ...
Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer represents a leap forward in scientific research. Offering unprecedented speed and power, advanced hardware, and AI capabilities, Aurora ushers in a new era of ...
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 ...
The Energy Department announced a $200 million contract Thursday to fund the world’s most powerful supercomputer to date. Under the department’s Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence ...
Aurora is already one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. HPC Wire ranked it number #2 in its top 500 list in November 2023.But that ranking was achieved with just “half of Aurora ...
Aurora was announced as a standard supercomputer in 2015, but got scaled up to exascale in 2017.Exascale supercomputers can operate at quintillion calculations per second, according to the DOE’s ...
Aurora is being called the fastest supercomputer in U.S. history — and it may be one of the fastest in the world. It will give scientists a powerful new tool for research initiatives ranging ...
Aurora lags a little way behind the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which previously achieved 1.206 exaflops, but being the second supercomputer to break the ...
Argonne National Laboratory plans to pave the way for its first exascale supercomputer with a testbed system, Polaris, announced Wednesday. The “stepping stone” supercomputer will afford staff and ...
The United States government has announced plans to build Aurora, a blisteringly fast “exascale” supercomputer by 2021 — an effort to boost research projects related to public health issues ...