The United States has reclaimed the top spot from Japan in the race to create the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) massive Frontier supercomputer was declared the world’s fastest computer on May 30 on the TOP500 ranking, and is the first to achieve the exascale threshold of one quintillion calculations per second, the laboratory said in a May 30 Twitter post.
ORNL is part of the U.S. Department of Energy.
“At 1.1 exaflops, Frontier is also the world’s fastest supercomputer and can solve more than a quintillion calculations per second,” ORNL said on Twitter in the May 30 announcement….