Deployed at the Argonne National Laboratory and built in collaboration with HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), the Aurora Supercomputer was expected to be one of the top performers in the HPC & AI segment. Powered by Intel's Xeon CPU Max and Data Center GPU Max series, the platform was in the race against AMD who managed to be the first to hit the exascale barrier. In the meantime, despite being announced back in 2019, the Aurora supercomputer barely managed to hit its targeted goals but today, the system has reached up to 87% operational capacity or 9234 nodes in total.

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In terms of specs, the Aurora supercomputer is built using 166 Racks which feature 10,624 blades, 21,248 Intel Xeon CPU Max chips (4th Gen Sapphire Rapids), and 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max series units (Ponte Vecchio). It is based on the HPE slingshot fabric for interconnect and makes use of 84,992 endpoints.

In terms of performance metrics, the Aurora supercomputer managed to rank second in the HPL LINPACK benchmark but managed to break the exascale barrier at 1.012 exaflops using just 87% of the total node capacity (9234 nodes vs 10,624). The system also ranked third in the HPCG test with 5612 TFLOPs/second using just 39% of the system.

Utilizing the Xe core architecture and its several AI hardware blocks, the Aurora supercomputer now manages to rank 1st in the AI performance charts with a total rated performance of 10.6 AI Exaflops. The performance was measured using LINPACK-mixed precision (HPL-MxP) benchmark.

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