The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has unveiled its Flyer supercomputer at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.The $20 million supercomputer offers 14 petaflops of compute power and will be used by the US government’s Department of Defense (stylized as the Department of War) to solve “difficult problems,” the director of AFRL’s Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center, Bryon Foster, said.The supercomputer is comprised of 884 compute nodes containing 169,782 AMD Epyc "Genoa" compute cores, 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs, and 16 Nvidia L40 GPUs, in addition to 800TB of RAM, and 18PB of storage.In a post on LinkedIn, Marc DeNofio, a spokesperson at AFRL, said: “By allowing researchers to simulate and model incredibly complex operational data, Flyer can crack problems in 24 hours that would take a standard computer half a millennium to solve. This scale of data modeling allows us to test hazardous, highly complex variables in a digital environment, giving our strategic planners and warfighters unmatched predictive clarity for decisive battle scenarios.”Flyer is the tenth supercomputer to be deployed by the AFRL at its Wright-Patterson base, with Flyer set to support unclassified systems, the lab noted.