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ORNL’s Early Frontier Users Seize Exascale Advantage

Researchers grapple with grand scientific challenges, including energy.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

With the world’s first exascale supercomputing system now open to full user operations, research teams are harnessing Frontier’s power and speed to tackle some of the most challenging problems in modern science. The HPE Cray EX system at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) debuted in May 2022 as the fastest computer on the planet and first machine to break the exascale barrier at 1.1 exaflops, or 1.1 quintillion calculations per second. That’s more calculations per...

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