Blink and You’ll Miss It: 10 Fastest Things on Earth

The fastest Supercomputer – Frontier in USA

Performance: 1.102 exaFLOPS or 1.102 quintillion operations per second

Frontier, the fastest supercomputer worldwide since 2022, is a powerhouse of technology.

It’s made up of a huge bunch of 9,472 AMD Epyc Trento CPUs, with each having 64 cores running at 2 GHz. In total, this adds up to a massive 606,208 CPU cores. Plus, there are 37,888 Radeon Instinct MI250X GPUs, which means a whopping 8,335,360 GPU cores.

This supercomputer also has a super-fast storage system. It can read data at a speed of 75 terabytes per second, write data at 35 terabytes per second, and handle 15 billion input/output operations per second.

Frontier uses 21 megawatts of power, a bit more than its predecessor, Summit, which used 13 megawatts. Even though it requires a lot of power, Frontier is incredibly important for scientists and engineers. It helps them solve some of the toughest problems and run complex simulations.