In April 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to procure a trio of exascale supercomputers at a total cost of up to $1.8 billion dollars. Over the ensuing four years, many announcements were made, many deadlines were missed, and a pandemic threw the world into disarray. Now, at long last, HPE and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced that the first of those three systems is operational: the HPE-built, AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, a behemoth system that delivers 1.102 Linpack exaflops of computing power.
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