Aurora is an exascale supercomputer that was sponsored by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and designed by Intel and Cray for the Argonne National Laboratory.

[4] In 2013 DOE presented a proposal for an "exascale" supercomputer, capable of speeds in the neighborhood of 1 exaFLOP (1018 floating point mathematical operations per second) with a maximum power consumption of 20 megawatts (MW) by 2020.

[8] In late October 2021 Intel announced that Aurora would now exceed 2 exaFLOPS in peak double-precision compute[9] – That claim however never was realized.

[10] In May 2024, Aurora appeared at number two on the Top500 supercomputer list, with a performance of 1.012 exaFLOPS, marking the second entry of an exascale capable system on the Top500.

[11][12][13] Functions include research on brain structure, nuclear fusion,[14] low carbon technologies, subatomic particles, cancer and cosmology.