El Capitan represents an evolution over its predecessor, the Sierra supercomputer, which has been operational since 2018.

The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California has launched the world’s fastest supercomputer, ...

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 ...

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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“El Capitan” is the world’s fastest supercomputer and the third exascale computer on the planet. The world’s fastest ...

By Sooji Nam Click here for updates on this story LIVERMORE, California (KPIX) -- The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ...

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 ...

“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 ...