Meet El Capitan: The World’s Fastest Supercomputer! ⚡

Summary:

  1. World’s Most Powerful
    El Capitan, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, tops the TOP500 list with a record-breaking 1.742 exaflops of performance.

  2. Exascale Elite
    It joins Frontier and Aurora as one of only three exascale supercomputers, capable of performing over a quintillion calculations per second.

  3. Advanced Hardware
    El Capitan boasts 11 million CPU and GPU cores powered by AMD’s 4th-gen EPYC processors and Instinct M1300A APUs, delivering cutting-edge efficiency.

  4. Energy Efficiency
    This supercomputer achieves 58.89 Gigaflops per watt, a standout metric for such high-performance systems.

  5. Critical Applications
    While designed for nuclear stockpile safety, El Capitan is also equipped to handle nuclear counterterrorism and other advanced research needs.

Read more at: Engadget

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