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June 3, 2022
The American supercomputer Frontier achieved a performance of 1.1 exaflops and took first place in the ranking of the most powerful in the world. In terms of speed, it outperforms the next seven supercomputers combined. Frontier has 9.4 thousand 64-core AMD EPYC 7A53 processors and 37.6 thousand AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators. The storage volume is about 700 petabytes. Frontier occupies a space of 372 square meters. Components are installed in 74 modules, each of which weighs almost 3.6 tons. It took 145 kilometers of cables to connect everything.