Supercomputers or supercomputers are High Performance Computers (HPC) – high performance computers, with outstanding computing capabilities, far beyond what you can think. They “plow” hard at universities, laboratories and other large, important facilities around the world.
Supercomputers play an important role in the field of computational science, and are used for a variety of complex computational tasks in many fields, including quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, and research. climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modeling (calculating the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, crystals), and physical simulations (such as simulate the early moments of the universe, aerodynamics of aircraft and spacecraft). Throughout their history, supercomputers have proven important in the field of cryptanalysis.
Below are the 3 fastest supercomputers that humans have.
3. LUMI, Finland
LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure) was built by HPE in 2022 and located in Finland, becoming the fastest supercomputer in Europe. LUMI has a total of 1,110,144 cores and clocks at 151.9 PFLOPS.
LUMI runs on the same processor as Frontier (US) and has an energy efficiency rating of 51.63 gigaflops/watt, making it the second most efficient supercomputer in the world.
2. Fugaku, Japan
Fugaku
Built by Fujitsu, Fugaku is installed at the RIKEN Center for Computer Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan. With the additional hardware, the system achieved a new world record with a result of 442 petaflops on HPL, 3 times more than the second system on the list.
The director of RIKEN, Satoshi Matsuoka, said that “it was finally possible to use the entire machine instead of just a small part of it.”
1. Frontier, USA
Frontier was built in 2022 by American multinational information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in collaboration with subsidiary Cray. This is the world’s first exascale supercomputer, which means it can calculate at least 10^18 calculations per second.
Frontier has a total of 8,730,112 cores and achieved 1.1 EFLOPS (or exaflops) in Linpack benchmark tests. It is based on the latest HPE Cray EX235a architecture and uses a combination of 64-core 2GHz 3rd generation CPU 7A53s and AMD’s MI250X GPU.
Frontier is also the most efficient supercomputer in the world, with a power efficiency rating of 52.23 gigaflops/watt. Each of its 74 computing cabinets weighs about 3.63 tons and the entire system has a total cost of up to 600 million USD.