05:19 AM EDT, 05/13/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( HPE ) said Monday that it and Intel ( INTC ) delivered what the company described as the world's second exascale supercomputer to the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to accelerate scientific discovery in fields such as brain mapping, particle physics, and drug design.

Hewlett Packard ( HPE ) described the AI-capable computer, called Aurora, as the world's second-fastest supercomputer.

An exascale computing system can process one quintillion operations per second. The company said the project connects 75,000 computing endpoints, 2,400 storage and service endpoints, and 5,600 switches in the largest deployment of open, Ethernet-based supercomputing interconnections on a single system. The configuration includes 21,248 Intel Xeon CPU Max Series processors and 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max units.

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