With two exaflops of performance, the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer is expected to beat the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, currently the fastest in the world, and take the lead on the Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers. However, due to Intel's continued delays in delivering the hardware, Aurora has not yet submitted a benchmark to the Top 500 committee, so it didn't make the list announced today. Intel shared new details about the system today and announced at the ISC conference that it has delivered 'over' 10,000 operational blades for the Aurora supercomputer — but with the caveat that these aren't the actual blades needed for full deployment. We'll cover the details below.
However, Intel says the system will be fully operational later this year and shared benchmarks with Aurora going head-to-head against AMD and Nvidia-powered supercomputers, claiming a 2X performance advantage over AMD's MI250X GPUs, and a 20% gain over Nvidia's H100 GPUs.
