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AMD-Powered Frontier Remains Fastest Supercomputer in the World, Intel-Powered Aurora Takes Second With Half-Scale Result (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Actually, Aurora never really materialised, as the original Aurora was cancelled even before any kind of hardware-installation took place (The one with the Xeon Phi; → Knights Landing), when Intel pulled the plug on anything Xeon Phi right before Aurora's supposedly scheduled beginning installation in 2015 and to be delivered completed for 2018.

After it, Intel somehow again sold the ANL (Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Energy Department) the blueprint of another Super-Computer scheduled for installation in 2021, which in turn *again* was spec-wise pretty much made up and hardware-wise out of thin air (on both instances, same as the original one). As Intel had neither any clue if they'd be able to deliver as promised nor had they the supposed hardware at any disposal.

Talking about delusion and bragging for a living ..

Cringy enough, they hadn't even engineered any whatsoever hardware by then (Sapphire Rapids, Ponte Vecchio) which was supposed to make up Aurora in the first place, that's why it took so long to deliver anything.