U.S. DoE unvails $500m supercomputer

From the New York Times: DoE is unveiling a new $500m exascale supercomputer, produced by a collaboration between Intel and Cray. This is part of the computing arms race with China, which has been making big strides in supercomputing in the past decade.

The supercomputer, called Aurora, is a retooling of a development effort first announced in 2015 and is scheduled to be delivered to the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago in 2021. Lab officials predict it will be the first American machine to reach a milestone called “exascale” performance, surpassing a quintillion calculations per second.