Argonne, Intel to Build First Exascale Supercomputer in United States.

AuthorTadjdeh, Yasmin
PositionBEST OF THE WEB

The Department of Energy picked Argonne National Laboratory and its industry partner Intel Corp. to build the United States' first exascale supercomputer, officials announced March 18.

The system--known as Aurora--is slated for completion in 2021, said Paul Dabbar, undersecretary for science at the Energy Department. The contract is valued at more than $500 million and work will be performed by Intel with its subcontractor Cray Computing, he added.

Aurora will jump "to the top performance computer of the world," he told reporters. "It will hit an exaflop of performance --so that is 10 to the 18th [power], or a billion-billion calculations per second." The system will push forward the bounds of human knowledge and discovery science, he said.

Rick Stevens, Argonne's associate laboratory...

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