Top500 rating updated
As we said today, the Aurora supercomputer based on Intel components has become the most productive in the world in AI tasks. However, it did not become the first in double precision calculations (FP64). Today we also published a fresh ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Top500, so we can evaluate both new and old systems.
The rating is still headed by the Frontier system on AMD Epyc processors and AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators. Classic performance reaches 1,206 ExaFLOPS. Second place goes to Aurora, which has 1.012 ExaFLOPS. What is important is that Frontier consumes up to 22.786 MW of power, and Aurora already consumes almost 38.7 MW. That is, the energy efficiency of Aurora, at least in these tasks, is very much inferior to that of Frontier. In fact, the latter ranks 13th in the Green500 ranking, that is, the list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers.
Third place goes to the Eagle system on Intel processors and Nvidia H100 accelerators, but here the performance is half that of the leaders (561.2 PFLOPS).
It’s also worth highlighting another newcomer in the top 10 — Alps system, located in sixth place with a performance of 270 PFLOPS. It is based on Nvidia Grace and GH200 accelerators. This is the most powerful supercomputer using these components so far.