Seattle-based Cray to build world's fastest supercomputer under $600M federal contract
The competition between the U.S. and China for supercomputer supremacy is entering a new phase, with the U.S. poised to protect its lead on the backs of two new machines from Seattle-based Cray.
The supercomputer maker inked its second deal in less than two months with the Department of Energy for systems designed to perform more than a quintillion calculations per second, a sevenfold increase over the current fastest machine, which is less than a year old.
One of the Cray computers would be the world’s most powerful and most expensive, capable of more than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second when it comes online in 2021.
Under the $600 million “Frontier” contract, Cray would develop technology and build that machine using AMD chips for Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It is a massive undertaking, weighing as much as 35 school buses and costing more than any other computer.
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