The US Department of Energy has announced plans to build a new supercomputer που θα ονομάζεται Aurora. Το νέο system it will become the fastest computer in the United States and possibly the world. 
DOE Undersecretary Franklin "Lynn" Orr, announced that Intel Corp. and Cray Inc. were selected to equip the Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne Leadership Computing Facility or ALCF) with a system that at its peak will "hit" the 180 petaflops. The new system before it was built is called Aurora and will cost $ 200 million. The plans also include the construction of an auxiliary system with 8 petaflops, which will be called Theta or Theta, marking the collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL).
"The Aurora "It is expected to be 18 times more powerful than Argonne's current Mira system, but it will only use 2,7 times more energy," said Undersecretary Orr. This kind of energy efficiency is vital to the development of next-generation supercomputers on an exa-class scale, he continued.
The Aurora system is programmed to operate 2018, while the Theta system will reach 2016 to support Argonne's transition from Mira to Aurora.
The main contractor of the contract is Intel Federal, a fully controlled subsidiary of Intel Corp.
Intel will work with Cray Inc. which has been proven expertise for supercomputing and HPC for mobile devices to report the stack. το σύστημα Αurora θα βασίζεται σε ένα super computer επόμενης γενιάς, με το κωδικό όνομα “Shasta,” που ανήκει στα Cray® XC™ series. Essentially, it will be the first system based on the Cray architecture of 'Shasta'
Intel announced at ComputerWorld that the next-generation super computer will use Intel Xeon, multi-socket web servers as well as Xeon Phi chips, up to 72 cores.
