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Frontera
General Info
Sponsors	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Designers	Intel, Dell
Operators	Texas Advanced Computing Center
Introduction	2019
Peak FLOPS	38,746 TFLOPS
Succession
Stampede 2 Longhorn

Frontera is a the successor to Stampede 2, a planned academic supercomputer with a peak performance of 35-40 petaflops. Frontera is expected to deliver the 3x speedup in real-application performance over Blue Waters at about one-third the cost.

Overview

Announced in late August 2018, Frontera is expected to come online in 2019 and replace Stampede 2 as the fastest academic supercomputer in the United States. The system will be delivered by Dell EMC and incorporate ~16,000 Intel Xeon processors based on the Cascade Lake microarchitecture.

• Frontera - Dell C6420, Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 28C 2.7 GHz, Mellanox InfiniBand HDR

Year: 2019 • Cores: 448,448 • Rmax: 23,516,400 GFLOPS • Rpeak: 38,745,907 GFLOPS

• Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

• University of Texas at Austin

• Blue Waters - Cray XE/XK, AMD "Interlagos" CPU, NVIDIA K20X GPU, 13,000 PFLOPS

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

Models

Supercomputers • DoE

TACC

• Frontera • 2019
• Longhorn • 2019
• Stampede 2 • 2017
• Stampede KNL • 2016
• Lonestar 5 • 2015
• Maverick • 2014
• Stampede • 2012
• Lonestar 4 • 2011
• Ranger • 2008
• Lonestar 2 • 2006
• Wrangler 2 • 2005
• Wrangler • 2005
• Lonestar • 2004

TOP500

• Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univer. of Texas
URL:	http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/
Segment	Academic
City:	Austin
Country/Region:	United States

System	Year	Vendor	• Cores 	• Rmax (GFlop/s) • Rpeak (GFlop/s)

*Frontera - PowerEdge C6420, Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 28C 2.7 GHz, Mellanox InfiniBand HDR-100
:2019	DELL    	• 448,448	• 23,516,400	• 38,745,907
*Stampede 2 - PowerEdge C6320P/C6420, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4 GHz/Platinum 8160, Intel Omni-Path
:2017	DELL    	• 367,024	• 10,680,700	• 18,309,222
*Stampede - PowerEdge C8220, Intel Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.7 GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi SE10P
:2012	DELL    	• 522,080	• 5,168,110	• 9,598,208
*Longhorn - IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 20C 3.6 GHz, NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2, Infiniband EDR
:2019	IBM     	• 37,440	• 2,288,000	• 2,867,405
*Lonestar 5 - Cray XC40, Intel Xeon E5-2690v3 12C 2.6 GHz, Aries interconnect
:2015  Cray/HPE         • 30,048	• 1,017,040	• 1,249,997
*Stampede-KNL - Intel S7200AP Cluster, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4 GHz, Intel Omni-Path
:2016  Dell/Intel	• 34,272	• 842,869	• 1,535,386
*Ranger - SunBlade x6420, AMD Opteron QC 2.3 GHz, Infiniband
:2008 Sun Microsystems	• 62,976	• 433,200	• 579,379.2
*Ranger - SunBlade x6420, AMD Opteron Quad 2.0 GHz, Infiniband
:2008 Sun Microsystems	• 62,976	• 326,000	• 503,808
*Lonestar 4 - Dell PowerEdge M610 Cluster, Intel Xeon 5680 3.3 GHz, Infiniband QDR
:2011	DELL	• 22,656	• 251,800	• 301,777
*Maverick - Cluster Platform SL250s Gen8, Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 10C 2.8 GHz, Infiniband FDR, Nvidia K40m
:2014	HPE	• 4,620 	• 158,100	• 247,896
*Lonestar - PowerEdge 1955, 2.66 GHz, Infiniband
:2007	DELL	• 5,848 	• 46,730	• 62,220
*Lonestar - PowerEdge 1955, 2.66 GHz, Infiniband
:2006	DELL	• 5,200 	• 41,460	• 55,473.6
*Lonestar2 - PowerEdge 1855, 3.2 GHz, Infiniband
:2006	DELL	• 1,300 	• 6,989 	• 8,320
*Lonestar - PowerEdge 1750, Pentium 4 Xeon 3.2/3.06 GHz, Myrinet
:2004 Dell/Cray	• 1,024 	• 4,152 	• 6,338
*Lonestar - PowerEdge 1750, Pentium 4 Xeon 3.06 GHz, Myrinet
:2003 Dell/Cray	• 600   	• 2,455  	• 3,672
*Wrangler 2 - PowerEdge 1855, 3.2 GHz, Infiniband
:2005	DELL	• 400   	• 2,141  	• 2,560
*Wrangler - PowerEdge 1850, 3.2 GHz, Myrinet
:2005	DELL	• 256   	• 1,269  	• 1,638
*Longhorn - pSeries p690/p655 1.3 GHz
:2002	IBM	• 224   	• 704.8 	• 1,164.8

Bibliography

• Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). (August 29, 2018). Personal communication.

See also

• AMD • EPYC
• Intel • Xeon
• IBM • NVIDIA
• DoE • NERSC]