The system features improved energy efficiency.

Willow demonstrates “best-in-class” benchmark performance.

The California-based system is the third system ever to achieve exascale ranking.

Researchers could send data to a remote computing facility for analysis in real time.

The supercomputer is now second only to AMD's Frontier system.

The system features open software along with performance-optimized hardware.

The competition aims to foster innovation in large-scale AI models.