South Korea ranks 7th in the world in number of supercomputers owned and 9th in performance - South Korean report

On the 15th, the Korea Institute of Science, Technology and Information (KISTI) announced at the Supercomputing Conference 2023 (SC2023) event being held in Colorado, USA.
It has been revealed that South Korea ranks 7th in the world in the number of supercomputers (hereinafter referred to as supercomputers) it owns, and 9th in terms of performance.
In the world's top 500 supercomputer rankings announced on the 13th (local time),
, ``Frontier'' by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the United States took the top spot. "Frontier", which has been in first place since June last year, has a performance of 1.194 exaflops
(EF), it is possible to perform 119.4 quintillion operations per second. 2nd and 3rd place goes to ``Aurora'' from Argonne National Laboratory in the US, which newly appeared this year, and ``Eagle'' from Microsoft in the US.
was. Fugaku, jointly developed by Japan's RIKEN and Fujitsu, and Lumi, developed by Finland's Science IT Center, were also ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.
Korea has 12 supercomputers, ranking 7th with Italy, and in terms of performance, it ranks 9th with 151.3 petaflops. Naver's "Se Jeong" (22nd place)
and ``DAIDC'' (126th place) by the Korean government newly appeared in the top 500. “SSC-21” by Samsung Institute of Technology (28th place), “Titan” by SK Telecom (59th place)
), the rankings of existing supercomputers are changing.