Intel to power first exascale supercomputer

  I never met a supercomputer I didn’t like, and boy-oh-boy is there a lot to like about the upcoming Aurora.  Intel and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United States. The system being developed at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, named Aurora, will be used to advance scientific research and discovery. The contract is valued at more than $500 million and will be delivered to Argonne National Laboratory by Intel and sub-contractor Cray in 2021. The Aurora systems’ exaFLOP of performance—equal to a “quintillion” floating