The next planned ‘exascale’ supercomputer Aurora, this time powered by Intel CPUs and GPUs, but repeatedly delayed since 2018, will deliver around 2 ExaFLOPS.
And then, El Capitan, also with 2 ExaFLOPS of performance and powered by AMD, is planned for 2024.
It’s worth emphasising that these expensive and powerful systems are built to do vital jobs. El Capitan, for example is being built to support ongoing management of the US nuclear stockpile:
DOE/NNSA is embarking on a multi-year collaboration with the selected system vendor and its subcontractors to work on non-recurring engineering and system integration to deliver El Capitan. The collaboration focuses on system engineering efforts and software technologies to assure the 2023 exascale system will be a capable and productive computing resource for the Stockpile Stewardship Program.
It’s also notable that Cray, now owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been heavily involved in the development of all these machines, almost fifty years after the Cray-1 was introduced.
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