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The Next "Frontier" in Supercomputing -- U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Exascale System Takes Top Spot on the 2022 "TOP500" List

The Next "Frontier" in Supercomputing -- U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Exascale System Takes Top Spot on the 2022 "TOP500" List

  • Publish Date:July 2022

  • Number of Pages:10

  • Report ID:6293015

  • Format:PDF

  • Publisher:IDC

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Summary

This IDC Market Perspective provides details about the exascale system of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, that takes top spot on the 2022 "TOP500" list. Impressive achievement with the successful collaboration of U.S. DOE's ORNL, HPE, and AMD pays off after three years of painstaking work, ushering in the first-ever, fastest, exascale supercomputer in the world. With the powerful leap in computational ability, breakthroughs in critical fields such as cancer research, accelerated drug discovery, renewable energy, and new materials research will pave the way to solve the world's most challenging problems, marking a new era in scientific computing. With this impressive pioneering effort, the rest of the computing community of vendors and large businesses will follow suit, including but not limited to NVIDIA, Graphcore, Cerebras, and Groq. Performance, cost, and affordability (full TCO and ROI analysis) are the dominant factors that determine which infrastructure national laboratories and other large businesses will choose to adopt. Other decision points include power usage efficiency and infrastructure footprint. With progress made toward more enhanced computing capability, a new paradigm also needs to be established to manage the scientific data, which has been ceaselessly exploding at a rate faster than the compute capability."Supercomputing centers and large businesses that enter into the realm of exascale computing will produce copious amounts of data at exponential rates reaching yottabyte (1024) and xenottabyte (1028) scales and even beyond," says Josephine Palencia, research director, High Performance Computing at IDC. "For data management, clear and balanced policies for data security and compliance are necessary to increase, facilitate, and allow open share access to sensitive data, which is problematic in the world of global hacking. These present opportunities for visionary and technological breakthrough innovations in HPC storage and data management in the same light."

Table of contents

Executive Snapshot

New Market Developments and Dynamics

Introduction to TOP500

TOP500 in 2022 -- Key Highlights

Linear Performance Development

TOP500: Vendor Shares

TOP500 Storage Shares (IO500)

"Frontier" Highlights Partnership Between HPE, AMD, and U.S. DOE

Compute Performance and Mixed Precision Computing

Green Energy Efficiency

Examples of Other Vendors

NVIDIA

Graphcore

Cerebras Systems

Groq

Market Strategies

Scenarios/Use Cases

Taxonomy Guidance

Advice for the Technology Suppliers and Services Providers

IDC's Point of View

HPC Data Management

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