Aurora (supercomputer)
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| Operators | Argonne National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy |
| Location | Argonne Leadership Computing Facility |
| Power | 38.7 MW |
| Speed | 1.012 exaFLOPS (Rmax) / 1.98 exaFLOPS (Rpeak) |
| Cost | US$500 million (estimated cost) |
| Purpose | Scientific research and development |
| Website | https://www.anl.gov/aurora |
Aurora is an exascale supercomputer that was sponsored by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and designed by Intel and Cray for the Argonne National Laboratory. It was briefly the second fastest supercomputer in the world from November 2023 to June 2024.
The cost was estimated in 2019 to be US$500 million. Olivier Franza is the chief architect and principal investigator of this design.