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Supermassive black hole image consumed 100 million CPU hours

"Frontera leverages 448,448 CPU cores courtesy of 16,016 units of Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8280 chips, a Broadwell-class CPU leveraging 28 Intel cores."

The image released in May showcasing the supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, owes its existence to human ingenuity – and to our old friend, the CPU. Achieved

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