Frontier named one of TIME's 2023 Best Inventions

Frontier, the world’s fastest exascale supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and one of the top greenest systems, built by HPE, has been recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023.

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#1

Built by HPE, ORNL’s Frontier supercomputer is #1 on the TOP500 at 1.206 exaflops of performance
#7

Built by HPE, ORNL’s TDS and full system are ranked #7 and #13 respectively on the Green500, with 62.68 gigaflops/watt power efficiency for the TDS system, 52.93 for the full system
#2

Built by HPE, ORNL’s Frontier supercomputer is #2 on HPL-MxP list at 10.2 exaflops

Sources: May 2024 Top500, Green500, and HPL-MxP mixed-precision benchmarks.

Frontier: moving the future forward

Oak Ridge National Laboratory announces the Frontier supercomputer, and with it, a new era of insights, answers, and innovation. The 2 exaflops-capable system will make possible transformative science — advancing knowledge in everything from medicine to biology to material science to deep space to climate change. Frontier is both the culmination of a long-term dream—and the start of countless new ones.

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America’s exascale future

Exascale is the next level of computing performance solving calculations five times faster than today’s top supercomputers.

Learn more at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory website

Capturing the wonder of the stars

ORNL’s Dr. Bronson Messer explains how Frontier and the exascale era of supercomputing will transform our study of the cosmos, making it possible to simulate supernova explosions in a matter of weeks—and bring us closer to understanding our ultimate origins.

Capturing the power of the wind

GE Renewable Energy’s Engineering Exec for Advanced Technology and Sciences Joe Citeno explains why and how Frontier and exascale supercomputing can transform wind turbine technology—allowing engineers to design more efficient, reliable and powerful machines.

Capturing the wonder of global interconnectedness

Climate change is not just about climate modeling. It’s connected to everything from human health to vehicle technology to energy production. ORNL’s Dr. Kate Evans explains how making connections between scientific areas will be the new “frontier” in problem solving.

Capturing the wonder of who we are

Berg Health’s Dr. Niven Narain explains how the Frontier supercomputer and the power of exascale will help medicine bring data and AI together to understand who we are as individual patients at a level never before possible—and make a massive impact on human health.

”Frontier is ushering in a new era of exascale computing to solve the world’s biggest scientific challenges.”

ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia
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