Intel completes the installation of the Aurora supercomputer, which will become the world's first supercomputer with 20 billion calculations per second

【Lansheng Technology Information】The Intel supercomputer Aurora has been installed at the Aragon National Laboratory. It can provide FP64 computing power of 2 Exaflops and will become the world's first supercomputer with 20 billion billion calculations per second.

Intel revealed that the Aurora supercomputer will be equipped with a total of 10,624 nodes, including 21,248 Xeon CPUs based on the Sapphire Rapids-SP series and 63,744 GPUs based on the Ponte Vecchio design. The system will be a beast with an insane fabric interconnect, delivering 2.12 PB/s of peak injected bandwidth and 0.69 PB/s of peak bisected bandwidth.

In terms of memory, the Aurora supercomputer is equipped with 10.9 PB DDR5 system DRAM, CPU 1.36 PB HBM capacity, and GPU 8.16 PB HBM capacity. The peak bandwidth of system DRAM is 5.95 PB/s, the peak bandwidth of CPU HBM is 30.5 PB/s, and the peak bandwidth of GPU HBM is 208.9 PB/s. In terms of storage, the system is equipped with 230 PB of DAOS capacity, running at a peak bandwidth of 31 TB/s, and configured with a total of 1024 nodes.

Aurora running the latest Data Center GPU Max Series 1550 delivers the fastest SimpleFOMP performance, surpassing the NVIDIA A100 and AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators. Intel also touts some impressive relative performance compared to these accelerators in fusion reactor predictions, Monte Carlo methods (maximization), and QMCPACK (computational quantum mechanical properties).

It is said that the peak performance of the Aurora supercomputer will once again exceed the 2 Exaflops mark. The supercomputer will also run the latest Aurora gen AI models, providing 1 trillion parameters for scientific applications.

The latest Intel Data Center GPU Max Series 1550 running on Aurora delivers the best SimpleFOMP performance, beating out NVIDIA A100 and AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators. However, the supercomputer has not yet passed preliminary tests. After that, it's expected to appear on the Top500.org list, potentially surpassing the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer. The Aurora supercomputer is expected to be fully operational this year.

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