The supercomputer, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieves 1.742 exaFLOPs. China's machines could be even faster, but it's not sharing details publicly.

With a sustained compute power of 1.7 exaflops and a peak of over 2.7 exaflops, El Capitan knocks previous leader Frontier to second on the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. El Capitan was built by HPE for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to simulate nuclear weapons tests.

AMD is once again dominating the Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers with El Capitan, a newly introduced HPC system housed at Lawrence Livermore

El Capitan’s data processing abilities represent a major advancement in scientific research, particularly for managing the nuclear stockpile.

When it comes to exaflops it is the floppiest El Capitan has been ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It boasts a benchmark performance of 1.742 exaflops, or 1.742 quintillion calculations per second,

A supercomputer housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore has officially been crowned as the world’s fastest. The computer, known as “El Capitan,” is a collaboration between LLNL,

Newcomer El Capitan unseated five-time No. 1 system Frontier and is now the third exascale machine in the TOP500 supercomputer rankings.