From DatacenterDynamics, November 19:
AMD and Eviden selected for Alice Recoque exascale supercomputer
El Capitan has retained its title as the world’s most powerful supercomputer on the most recent edition of the Top500 list, with the US Department of Energy once again operating all of the top three systems.
However, while all the supercomputers comprising the top ten retained their positions from six months ago, the fourth-place Jupiter Booster system officially became Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, posting an HPL score of exactly one exaflops – a significant increase from the 793.4 petaflops it achieved in June.
Housed at Germany's Forschungszentrum Jülich campus, the Jupiter Booster – a partial version of the larger supercomputer being built at the supercomputing facility – is a BullSequana XH3000 featuring Nvidia GH200 Superchips.
El Capitan also saw an increase in its performance for the 66th edition of the list, posting a four percent gain from six months earlier for a total of 1.809 exaflops. Housed at Lawrence Livermore, the HPE Cray EX255a-based system is comprised of AMD 4th Gen Epyc 24C 1.8GHz CPUs and Instinct MI300A GPUs.
The system is one of six HPE Cray systems to make the top ten, a list that also includes Frontier, Aurora, HPC6, Alps, and LUMI.
Achieving 1.353 exaflops, Oak Ridge's second-place Frontier system comprises AMD 3rd Generation Epyc 64C 2GHz CPUs and Instinct MI250X GPUs, while Argonne's Cray EX-based Aurora with the Intel Exascale Compute Blade, Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz, and Intel Data Center GPU Max, had an HPL score of 1.012 exaflops.
In fifth place was Microsoft Azure's 561.2 petaflops Eagle, with Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C 48C 2GHz CPUs and Nvidia H100 GPUs, followed by the aptly named HPC6, another AMD-powered system operated by Italian oil giant Eni. The second most powerful supercomputer in Europe, HPC6, achieved 477.9 petaflops.
Japan’s Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer ranked seventh. Built by Fujitsu for Riken, it achieved 442.01 petaflops.
Eighth, ninth, and tenth place went to Switzerland's 434.9 petaflops Alps, Finland's 379.7 petaflops Lumi, and Italy's 241.2 petaflops Leonardo, respectively. Both Lumi and Leonardo form part of the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) initiative.
Alice Recoque to become third AMD-powered exascale system
Following the release of the Top500 list, AMD and Eviden announced they would be building the Alice Recoque supercomputer, set to be Europe’s second exascale system....
