Frontera, World’s 5th Fastest Academic Supercomputer is powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and features Intel Optane DC persistent memory.
Intel, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Dell Technologies and other science and technology partners have disclosed the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world, Frontera.
The new supercomputer is powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and features Intel Optane DC persistent memory to help accelerate boost the research and innovation programs.
2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors provide platform for industry leading, workload optimized performance, with built-in AI acceleration to boost data’s transformative impact, from the multi-cloud to the intelligent boundaries.
Whereas, Intel Optane DC persistent memory is an unconventional and advanced memory technology that ensures a unique combination of affordable large capacity and support for information resolution.
Vice president and general manager of Extreme Computing Organization at Intel, Trish Damkroger portrayed how the Frontera supercomputer will power the next generation of academic research, stating, “The Frontera system will provide researchers computational and artificial intelligence capabilities that have not existed before for academic research. With Intel technology, this new supercomputer opens up new possibilities in science and engineering to advance research including cosmic understanding, medical cures and energy needs.”
Frontera is the world’s most powerful and fastest academic supercomputer and it will ensure breakthrough research across in number of fields including astronomy, medicine, AI, quantum mechanics and mechanical engineering.
Early academic and research projects currently being run on Frontera include understanding the influence of distant stars, diagnosing and treating brain tumors, teaching neural networks quantum chemistry and countering techniques for emerging viruses.
