Frontier churns through data at record speed, outpacing 100,000 laptops working simultaneously. When it debuted in 2022, it was the first to break through supercomputing’s exascale speed barrier — the capability of executing an exaflop, or 1018 floating point operations per second. The Oak Ridge behemoth is the latest chart-topper in a decades-long global trend of pushing towards larger supercomputers (although it is possible that faster computers exist in military labs or otherwise secret facilities).
I used to work with this kind of facilities. It was quite humbling to be able at the click of a button to waste 200,000 CPU hours in one day by making a mistake in the input file, yet no one would probably know about it... as long as it wouldn't happen to often.