Intel and the US Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the US. The system being developed at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, named "Aurora", will be used to dramatically 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 Inc in 2021.
The system's exaFLOP of performance - equal to a "quintillion" floating point computations per second - combined with an ability to handle both traditional high performance computing (HPC) and AI will give researchers an unprecedented set of tools to address scientific problems at exascale.
These breakthrough research projects range from developing extreme scale cosmological simulations, discovering new approaches for drug response prediction and discovering materials for the creation of more efficient organic solar cells. The Aurora system will foster new scientific innovation and usher in new technological capabilities, furthering the US scientific leadership position globally.
"Achieving exascale is imperative, not only to better the scientific community but also to better the lives of everyday Americans," said Rick Perry.
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