Allen
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AMD Powers Europe’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Ever With 748,544 Zen 2 Cores
The UK government announced today that it has awarded the contract for the country's next generation national supercomputer to Cray, a supercomputing specialist subsidiary of HP.
When ARCHER2 goes into operation next year it is expected to be the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world and the most powerful CPU-only supercomputer in the world.
Waayyy back in the day, our NASA facility had one of the first Cray supercomputers -- 64 (very very slow by today's standards) cores -- programmed in FORTRAN -- Wow!
Now, the cellphone in your pocket is faster than our Cray was -- and this new Cray has 748544 very fast cores
Oh, by the way, our Cray filled a room -- a bit larger than a cellphone