DDN Customer CINECA Recognized for Bandwidth Score on IO500 List for Production Systems

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 6, 2023 – High performance data storage and management company  DDN today announced it achieved the highest bandwidth score for a production system on the IO500 benchmark in conjunction with customer CINECA on its Leonardo supercomputer, an Atos (Eviden) system. Leonardo won first place for highest bandwidth for systems running production workloads in […]

New TOP500 HPC List: Frontier Extends Lead with Performance Upgrade

After a flurry of new competitors in 2022 at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the first list of 2023 – issued here in Hamburg this morning at the ISC conference – reveals the same top 10 systems in the same order. Still, the HPC community will no doubt […]

TOP500: Frontier Maintains Big Lead, Europe at Nos. 3 and 4, China Quiet

The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released today at the SC22 conference in Dallas, while short on surprises underlines several significant HPC trends. First the headline: the HPE-built, AMD-powered Frontier system, which was crowned the world’s first exascale-class system when the previous TOP500 list was released last spring, remains at the top of the list, delivering nearly three times the power of its nearest rival on the list. Frontier remains at 1.102 exaFLOPS….