Aurora (supercomputer)
Aurora is a planned supercomputer, originally contracted to be completed by 2018 but through a series of delays at the prime contractor, Intel Corporation, now planned to be completed in 2023. It was originally planned be the worlds’ fastest supercomputer with over 2 exaflops, however a series of delays have cast that into doubt. It is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and designed by Intel and Cray for the Argonne National Laboratory. It will have 2 exaFLOPS in computing power which is approximately a quintillion (260 or 1018) calculations per second and will have an expected cost of US$500 million. It will follow Frontier, which was the world's first exascale supercomputer in 2022 and as of June 2023 the world's fastest. Olivier Franza is the chief architect and principal investigator of this design. History In 2013 DOE presented their exascale vision of one exaFLOP at 20 MW by 2020. Aurora was first announced in 2015 and to be finished in 2018. It was expected to have a speed of 180 petaFLOPS which would be around the speed of Summit. Aurora was meant to be the most powerful supercomputer at the time of its launch and to