Frontera named 5th fastest supercomputer

[Still Waters]

The Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) earned the #5 spot on the twice-annual Top 500 list , which ranks the world's most powerful non-distributed computer systems. Located at The University of Texas at Austin, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Frontera is the fastest university supercomputer in the world.

Frontera achieved 23.5 PetaFLOPS on the high-performance LINPACK benchmark, a measure of the system's floating point computing power. To match what Frontera can compute in just one second, a person would have to perform one calculation every second for about a billion years. The main system's theoretical peak performance will be 38.7 PetaFLOPS.

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-frontera-5th-fastest-supercomputer-world.html