[Beowulf] Intel/Cray Aurora system pushed back a few years, expanded to 1PF

Christopher Samuel samuel at unimelb.edu.au
Wed Oct 4 20:41:22 PDT 2017


Interesting news about the Intel/Cray part of the CORAL purchase, the
Aurora system destined for ANL has been delayed by 3 years to 2021 and
expanded out to an exaflop system.

https://www.top500.org/news/retooled-aurora-supercomputer-will-be-americas-first-exascale-system/

Rumours are that Knights Hill (the followup to KNL) might be the cause
of the delay...

All the best,
Chris (back in Melbourne)
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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
 Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne
 Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545



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