Frontier becomes the world’s fastest supercomputer

US built supercomputer, Frontier dethrones the Japan’s Fugaku to become the world’s fastest supercomputer. Fugaku, was jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu Ltd. in 2020, which topped the supercomputer benchmarking index.

Frontier was built by using Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) architecture and equipped with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors. Fugaku was built for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).