Will the United States have the world's fastest supercomputer in June 2022?
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Top500 June list came out, and Frontier is first:
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/06/
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Happy to buy to ~55%.
The question is basically about whether or not the new, currently under construction Frontier supercomputer will submit an HPL result to the Top500 list by May.
- The question is resolved by checking the Top500 list, which updates twice a year in June and November with submission deadlines of May and October respectively.
- The current #1 Top 500 list has the Fugaku supercomputer at 442 petaflops, while the proposed Frontier system will have somewhere north of 1 exaflop (it's not clear how to scale peak flops to flops on the Linpack benchmark used by Top500).
- While China seems to have 2 exascale supercomputers already up for almost a year and a third to be completed soon, 1) their reported Flops are (probably?) less than the proposed Frontier system's and more importantly 2) they having not submitted any HPL results to Top500 in for either submission deadline in 2021, despite these systems being used on quantum computing results released in November 2021. This makes me think that the chance a non-US party submits a result faster than the Frontier system is quite small. (Call it <15%.)
That being said, I'm pretty uncertain about if Frontier will be ready by then. If we look at how long the Summit supercomputer took to go from delivery to results, it began delivery in Late July/August 2017 and took #1 place on the June 2018 list (though it wouldn't reach full performance until mid August 2018 and its current top500 numbers until the November 2018 list). The Frontier supercomputer began delivery in August 2018, and it doesn't need to reach full performance to win the first place. I'd say there's a 2/3 chance they manage to submit an HPL result by this point, taking into account 1) the difficulty of the system and 2) the slightly tighter timeline than the Summit system.
Multiplying together the numbers, we get ~55%.
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