The people behind an exascale machine

Engineers and scientists recall the obstacles on the way to Frontier’s 2022 milestone.

Original title: The Journey to Frontier

What to watch for

Look beyond the record. This is a story about the people and the difficult integration work behind a very large machine.

A component that works on its own still has to work with cooling, networking, power and software. The accompanying story explores that wider physical system.

An Oak Ridge National Laboratory film. It tells the story of Frontier’s development and its 2022 exascale milestone. Rankings in the film describe that period.

What the film shows

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists and engineers describe how the Frontier supercomputer came together during the pandemic and a supply-chain crisis, and how it broke the exascale barrier.

From the publisher’s description. This is a summary, not a transcript.

Captions. English captions from the publisher, plus automatic captions.

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