Argonne’s Aurora Supercomputer: A New Dawn for Science @ArgonneLab
Argonne’s Aurora Supercomputer: A New Dawn for Science  @ArgonneLab
Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
As the home to the some of the world’s most advanced computing systems for scientific research, Argonne National Laboratory is continuing its long history of developing the technologies, tools and techniques needed to enable the breakthroughs of today and tomorrow.

Argonne is now installing one of the nation’s first exascale supercomputers, named Aurora. Built in partnership with Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aurora will enable science that’s impossible today.

Aurora has passed a major milestone: the installation of its final “blade,” which is a sleek, rectangular unit that houses the computer’s processors, memory, networking and cooling techniques. Each blade is equipped with two Intel Xeon CPU Max Series processors and six Intel Data Center GPU Max Series processors. Aurora has a total of 10,624 blades.

The system now contains all the hardware that will make it one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Aurora will be theoretically capable of delivering more than two exaflops of computing power, or more than 2 billion billion calculations per second.

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