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AI needs supercomputing. Check out the 10 most powerful supercomputers in the world

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The U.S. is home to five of the ten most powerful supercomputers in the world, according to the 64th edition of the TOP500.

Supercomputers have been used to discover new materials to develop batteries and chips, in disease research, and to run AI workloads.

The Fugaku supercomputer has been the top-ranked supercomputer since June 2020 .

The Aurora system is installed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility in Argonne , Illinois , and was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy .

Aurora reached 1.012 exaflops, and consumes 38,698 kilowatts of power.

Aurora uses Intel ’s.

Xeon CPU Max Series chips, Intel .

Data Center GPU Max Series accelerators, and Cray”s Slingshot-11 interconnect.

The Frontier system uses Intel system based on the HP Enterprise Cray EX - Intel Exascale Compute Blades.