Researchers preparing scientific codes and workloads to run on the Aurora exascale supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory now have a new resource at their disposal.
Named Sunspot, the new test and development system has the exact same architecture as Aurora, which is currently under construction at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science user facility. It’s an important way for researchers to get a head start on testing the powerful new system before its fully operational.