Intel's Aurora Supercomputer Debuts On TOP500 In Spot #2

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Aurora Supercomputer Debuts On TOP500 In Spot #2

The Aurora supercomputer originally was supposed to be completed by Intel and Cray/HPE for the Argonne National Laboratory back in 2018. Now at the end of 2023, it's made its first debut on the TOP500 list... But only as a partial deployment and is coming in at spot number two...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/TOP500-H2-2023-List

[uid313]

It looks like Intel and x86 in general is leading the Green 500 list too for the most energy efficient supercomputers.

[smotad]

"Well that's a big FLOP", commented an anonymous voice from the lab

[Ironmask]

Now imagine how much more powerful it'll be when Intel pays itself to unlock half of the cores in their CPUs.

[S.Pam]

Does it run Doom?

Seriously, though. Does this thing behave like a single computer when logged on a terminal or console, or is it just a networked cluster?

[mumar1]

No need to hurry if you are already 5 years late, the Berlin Airport of supercomputing

[ThomasD]

4th Gen? Is the hardware really that outdated already?

[skeevy420]

10,624 compute blades for a combined 21,248 Intel Xeon Max Series CPUs and 63,744 Intel Max Series GPUs

Each blade weighs 70lbs. That means this fucker weighs 371.84 tons and, based on the CPU model, has a minimum of 679,936 cores. That's insane, but does it have fractional scaling?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Intel.

5 years late.

Story checks out.

[andyprough]

Each blade weighs 70lbs. That means this fucker weighs 371.84 tons and, based on the CPU model, has a minimum of 679,936 cores. That's insane, but does it have fractional scaling?

According to the description on the Top500 list, it's more. A lot more.

Aurora - HPE Cray EX - Intel Exascale Compute Blade, Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz, Intel Data Center GPU Max, Slingshot-11
Site: DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory
Manufacturer: Intel
Cores: 4,742,808

And it's running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4. Which is kind of interesting.