It's quite a 'puter.
From Australian Manufacturing, March 4:
The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has released its Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers worldwide, providing a new tool for scientific discovery.
Aurora is expected to accelerate progress in various fields, including cosmology, nuclear energy research, drug discovery, and aeronautical engineering, ANL said in a news release.
Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), emphasised the system’s capabilities.
“We’re ecstatic to officially deploy Aurora for open scientific research,” Papka said. “Early users have given us a glimpse of Aurora’s vast potential. We’re eager to see how the broader scientific community will use the system to transform their research.”
Aurora is among the first exascale supercomputers, along with Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Exascale computing refers to systems capable of performing at least an exaflop, or a quintillion calculations per second....
....MUCH MORE
Perhaps now we will find a proof for one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems, The Navier-Stokes Equation. One of the problems, the Poincaré Conjecture was solved by the Russian mathematician Grigoriy Perelman in 2002 - 2003. He turned down the million dollar prize.
Previously on Aurora:
March 2023 - "The Computer That Will Change Everything".
November 2023 - The Computer That Will Change Everything: "New Breed of Supercomputer Aims for the Two Quintillion Mark"
December 2023 - AI: U.S. Government Jumps Ahead Of Google In Large Language Models
Our last 'puter link of the day. From TechRadar, November 20:
The GPT to rule them all: Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US government has just begunLLM playfully dubbed 'ScienceGPT' is being trained from data from the Aurora supercomputerScientists are training a gargantuan one-trillion-parameter generative AI system dubbed 'ScienceGPT' based on scientific data from the newly established Aurora supercomputer.
May 2024 - Supercomputers: Why Aurora Didn't Take The #1 Position In The Latest Top500 List
It is a truly remarkable machine but the prime contractor, Intel, wasn't up to the job, delivered it very late and the machine is still being put together.
November 2024 - China Has Fallen Out of the Top 10 Fastest Supercomputer Rankings; Europe Now Has Four
