U.S. Department of Energy and Intel to Build First Exascale Supercomputer

Secretary Perry

Secretary Perry announces the Energy Department will build Aurora, a new exascale supercomputer.

Intel Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will build the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United States. The system being developed at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, named “Aurora”, will be used to dramatically advance scientific research and discovery.

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