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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Among other problemsTen long months passed between the final Aurora hardware being installed and when ANL submitted its benchmarks, raising questions about the source of the continued delay in standing up the full machine. We followed up with Intel on the matter.“[...]Since we completed the physical delivery of the last compute node at the end of June 2023 (only 10 months ago), we have been working hand-in-hand with Argonne National Laboratory and HPE to fully stabilize and tune the system, including the compute nodes, storage system, fabric, power delivery, and cooling.""We are also actively working on addressing stability issues like hardware failures, software bugs, cooling system malfunctions, issues with power supply, networking infrastructure stability, environmental factors, and operational errors,” the Intel representative said to Tom's Hardware.Argonne National Laboratories and Intel have yet to provide a firm date for when they expect the system to be fully operational, but we do know that Aurora's window to take the lead in the Top500 is closing. The AMD-powered El Capitan, rated for two exaflops of peak throughput (not sustained), is largely expected to beat Aurora and Frontier in Linpack. Lawrence Livermore Labs submitted early results for sub-scale models of El Capitan today, and the system is expected to be completely installed by the end of 2024.Paul Alcorn is the Managing Editor: News and Emerging Tech for Tom's Hardware US. He also writes news and reviews on CPUs, storage, and enterprise hardware.More about supercomputersMost Popular
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