El Capitan, Supercomputer

HPE’s El Capitan Named World’s Fastest Supercomputer
El Capitan, built by HPE, tops the 2024 TOP500 list as the world’s fastest supercomputer, driving breakthroughs in AI, nuclear research, and energy.
US' El Capitan Is Now the World's Fastest Supercomputer
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.
El Capitan dethrones Frontier to become the world’s fastest supercomputer
El Capitan dethrones Frontier as the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.74 exaFLOPS of double precision performance.
AMD-powered El Capitan is now officially the world’s fastest supercomputer
El Capitan delivers an extraordinary sustained compute power of 1.7 exaflops and peaks at over 2.7 exaflops, dethroning the previous leader, Frontier by quite an impressive margin
‘Ultra-powerful’ supercomputer El Capitan to serve national security purposes
El Capitan, an exascale (or “ultra-powerful”) supercomputer built by the Hewlett Packard Enterprise, was displayed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, or LLNL, and officially verified as th
Oak Ridge supercomputer Frontier no longer world's fastest. Meet the new kid: El Capitan
Frontier, the barrier-breaking supercomputer hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is no longer the fastest in the world.
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LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
At 1.74 exaFLOPS of double precision performance as measured by the venerable Linpack (HPL) benchmark, the system, built by HPE Cray, boasts nearly 30 percent higher performance compared to the previous champion, which since its initial debut has climbed from 1.1 exaFLOPS to 1.35.
All hail our new leader — AMD-powered El Capitan becomes officially the world’s fastest supercomputer
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. It is powered by AMD instinct MI300A APUs and is not only the fastest but also in the top 20 of the greenest computers too.
AMD introduces El Capitan: the world's fastest supercomputer pumping 1.742 exaflops of power
AMD powers the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with Instinct MI300A APUs, the faster supercomputer in the world.
El Capitan ranked the most powerful supercomputer in the world
When Cray Computing, a supercomputer manufacturer acquired by HP in 2019, announced that it would build El Capitan it expected the computer to reach a peak performance of 1.5 exaflops. Today, the 64th edition of the TOP500 — a long-running ranking of the world's non-distributed supercomputers — was published,
Lawrence Livermore Lab’s ‘El Capitan’ crowned world’s fastest supercomputer
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,
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World's new fastest supercomputer is built to simulate nuclear bombs
The vast computational power of the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will be ...
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“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. And ...
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The World's Fastest Supercomputer Has AMD Instinct Chips, and Is Once Again From the US
El Capitan displaces the US' Frontier, which has now fallen to second place.