El Capitan becomes world's fastest supercomputer with 2.79 exaflops performance
El Capitan represents an evolution over its predecessor, the Sierra supercomputer, which has been operational since 2018.
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El Capitan: World’s fastest supercomputer to secure US nuclear arsenal powers up
El Capitan' is the world's fastest supercomputer, achieving 1.742 exaFLOPS in the High-Performance Linpack benchmark.
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World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...
World's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan," goes online to safeguard US nuclear weapons
El Capitan can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale supercomputer. It's the world's third exascale machine ...
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Inside the World's Fastest Supercomputer and Its Mission to Test Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is also home to Sierra, another massive supercomputer that peaked as the world’s second-fastest in 2018. It, too, conducts classified nuclear weapons simulations.
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World’s fastest supercomputer up and running to secure US nuclear stockpile
“El Capitan” is the world’s fastest supercomputer and the third exascale computer on the planet. The world’s fastest ...
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A History of Supercomputers
The Sierra supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore is used to evaluate and maintain the safety of America's aging nuclear weapon stockpile. Credit: US Department of Energy What do fusion research ...
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The 9 most powerful supercomputers in the world right now
Supercomputers play a vital role in scientific discoveries — from helping us forecast climate change to discovering new drugs. We've rounded up the top fastest on the planet right now.
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Top 500 Supercomputers: New No. 1 Uses Arm-Based Fujitsu CPUs
Nvidia's GPUs were in five other top 10 supercomputers: the U.S. Department of Energy's Summit at No. 2, the DOE's Sierra at No. 3, Italian energy giant Eni's HPC5 at No. 6, Italian computing ...
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Inside the World's Fastest Supercomputer and Its Mission to Test Nuclear Weapons
“We live for days like today," Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, a major supplier to El Capitan, said at a Thursday inauguration event for the supercomputer. The building that houses El Capitan ...