ORNL's Frontier is now the world's most powerful supercomputer

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ORNL's Frontier is now the world's most powerful supercomputer. Image Credit: ORNL
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ORNL's Frontier is now the world's most powerful supercomputer. Image Credit: ORNL

With 1.1 exaflops, Frontier quite easily defeated Japan's Fugaku

The Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US state of Tennessee has been named the world's most powerful supercomputer in the semi-annual TOP500 ranking of powerful ...

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