So, let’s just cut to the chase scene on Gelsinger pointing to the upper decks of zettascale and then circle back to some further insight into the new and improved Aurora system.
These turn out to be more important than what Gelsinger said about Aurora having its processing capacity almost doubled. This was made clear to The Next Platform in a question and answer session following the keynote at open day of the Intel Innovation virtual conference, when Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger answered some questions about the “Aurora” supercomputer being installed at Argonne National Laboratory and then tacked on some thoughts about Intel’s zettascale goals as a final thought.
Just because Intel is no longer interested in being a prime contractor on the largest supercomputing deals in the United States and Europe - China and Japan are drawing their own roadmaps and building their own architectures - does not mean that Intel does not have aspirations in HPC and AI supercomputing.
