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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Which supercomputer has topped the 59th edition of the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers?

A	Frontier
B	Sierra
C	Fugaku
D	LUMI

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The 59th edition of the TOP500 revealed the Frontier system to be the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s. The No. 1 spot is now held by the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US.

Detailed explanation-2: -The top five supercomputers in the 59th edition of the Top500 include Frontier System, now ranked No. 1, Fugaku, the new LUMI system, Summit and Sierra. Other computers that made it into the top 10 are Sunway TaihuLight, Perimeter, Selene, Tianhe-2A and the Adastra system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Supercomputer Fugaku, housed at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, scored 442.01PFLOP/s in the HPL test. It is built on the Fujitsu A64FX microprocessor and has 7,630,848 cores.

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