One of two HPE Cray EX supercomputers to exceed an exaflop , Aurora is the second-fastest supercomputer in the world .

Aurora has reached 1.012 exaflops on 87 % of the system , making it the world ’ s second-fastest supercomputer as verified by the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers . HPE is one of the world leaders in supercomputing and Aurora is not only the company ’ s second exascale system , but also one of the largest AI-capable systems in the world , taking the top spot on the HPL Mixed Precision ( MxP ) Benchmark , achieving 10.6 exaflops on 89 % of the system .

“ We are honoured to celebrate another significant milestone in exascale with Aurora , which delivers massive compute capabilities to make breakthrough scientific discoveries and help solve the world ’ s toughest problems ,” said Trish Damkroger , Senior Vice President and General Manager , HPC & AI Infrastructure Solutions , HPE .

“ We are proud of the strong partnership with the US Department of Energy , Argonne National Laboratory , and Intel to realise a system of this scale and magnitude that was made possible through our joint innovative engineering , multiple teams and most importantly , shared value of delivering stateof-the-art technology to fuel science and benefit humankind ,” Damkroger added . and 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max units , making it one of the world ’ s largest GPU clusters .

Planned as an AI-capable system from inception , researchers will be able to use Generative AI models on Aurora to accelerate scientific discovery . Early AI-driven research that scientists have run on Aurora include brain mapping to better understand the human brain ’ s 80 billion neurons , high energy particle physics enhanced by Deep Learning , and Machine- Learning accelerated drug design and discovery , among others .

Computational power at this scale makes it possible to address some of humanity ’ s most complex problems .

The Aurora exascale supercomputer is the result of a strong private-public partnership between HPE , Intel , the US Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory , which requires co-investment and co-development to create the breakthrough engineering that is necessary to advancing science .

Partnerships between the private and public sectors are key to achieving scientific progress as demonstrated by work done through the Aurora Early Science Program . As part of the process of optimising and stress-testing the system , researchers have already successfully run a diverse range of programming models , languages and applications on the system . �

An exascale computing system can process one quintillion operations per second .

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Computational power at this scale makes it possible to address some of humanity ’ s most complex problems . Aurora is built with the HPE Cray EX supercomputer , which is purpose-built to support the magnitude and scale of exascale . The system is also the largest deployment of open , Ethernet-based supercomputing interconnect – HPE Slingshot – on a single system .

The fabric connects Aurora ’ s 75,000 compute node endpoints and 2,400 storage and service network endpoints along with 5,600 switches to boost performance and achieve AI at scale by enabling high-speed networking across Aurora ’ s 10,624 compute blades , 21,248 Intel Xeon CPU Max Series processors

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