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"AMD and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced today that the AMD-powered El Capitan has taken the top spot on the semi-annual Top500 list as the fastest-known supercomputer on the planet with 1.742 exaflops of performance. El Capitan debuts on the list at the top spot, catapulting over the previous leader, the 1.3 exaflop Frontier. The Intel-powered Aurora system fell to third place on the list—the system didn't submit a new benchmark run, implying that the partially operational system is still experiencing failure issues on numerous fronts (more below)."
HP Enterprise Cray Supercomputing division is the prime contractor for all three exascale supercomputing projects that are Aurora (Argonne National Labs), Frontier (Oakridge National Labs), and El Capitan (Lawrence Livermore National Labs). The Aurora is built with Intel server CPUs and Intel GPUs while Frontier and El Capitan use AMD CPUs and GPUs.
While Frontier and El Capitan were moving relatively smoothly and on schedule, Aurora has experienced 5 years delay due to multiple Intel product issues. The exact date that Aurora can go into full operation and reach the design performance goals is still in question.
