On Monday, local time, the TOP500 supercomputer list, which is updated every six months, released the list for the first half of 2022. After Fugaku from Japan topped the list for two consecutive years, it was easily doubled by Frontier of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. This also shows the actual development process of the cutting-edge semiconductor industry. (Ranking of the 59th and 58th issue, source: TOP500 official website, Financial Associated Press) It is particularly noteworthy that in the list released today, there are three supercomputers that are new to the list, including the number one ranking Frontier of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As the biggest highlight of this list, the existence of Frontier has also made the measurement unit of super computing power a step forward. During the past two years when Japan’s Fugaku dominated the list, the unit of calculation has been Petaflops, or petaflops of floating-point operations per second (1 followed by 15 zeros). Frontier’s test computing power reached 1,102 Petaflops, which is the first supercomputing on the TOP500 list to disclose a floating-point computing power of 10 billion times per second (Exaflop, 1 followed by 18 zeros). .
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