The fourth fastest supercomputer developed and introduced by France
What you spot in the background is the world`s fourth maximum effective supercomputer and a capacity quantum bounce closer to the introduction of Europe`s first exascale computer.Leonardo is constructed on structure designed and advanced through French high performance computing company Atos. It`ll officially went online and started solving problems on the 24th of November.
While folks in the US are taking part in their Thanksgiving turkeys, Leo can be inaugurated in Italy in which it`ll cross approximately the commercial enterprise of serving the medical studies community`s maximum taxing computational needs.
Leonardo by the numbers:
●3,500 Intel Xeon processors
●14,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs
●4992 Intel Ice Lake computing nodes
●249 PFLOPS
●100 Petabytes storage
Once it’s formally online, Leonardo will officially become the second most powerful computer in Europe (behind its Finnish HPC system sibling “LUMI”) and the fourth most powerful in the world (Behind Japan’s Fugaki in second and The US’ Frontier in first).
Leonardo was built as part of The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). With co-funding from the EU and several member states, the group’s ultimate goal is to build the world’s fastest supercomputer bar none: an exascale supercomputer aptly called Jupiter, which is expected to go online in Germany in either 2023 or 2024.
Leonardo’s specific architecture, called MSA (Modular Supercomputing Architecture), allows it to be physically connected to a quantum computer through a wired network through an integration called “co-localization.” That’s a form of hybrid quantum supercomputing that allows the two separate compute architectures to communicate at high enough speeds to share information loads.
In the future, as hybrid quantum computing technology continues to develop, the EuroHPC’s Modular Supercomputing Architecture could very well ensure that Europe remains competitive with the US and China. Though, as far as supercomputers go, it remains to be seen if the EU’s upcoming Jupiter system will outclass the US’ upcoming Aurora, yet another exascale computer planned for near-term inauguration.
Main article: TNW
