The supercomputer, called "El Capitan," cost $600 million to build and will handle various sensitive and classified tasks including securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons in the absence of ...

AMD and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced today that the AMD-powered El Capitan has taken the top spot on the semi-annual Top500 list as the fastest-known supercomputer ...

LIVERMORE, California (KPIX) — The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) unveiled its $600 million supercomputer, “El Capitan,” after about eight years of research and building.

World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research —Japan to start building 1st 'zeta-class ...

IBM's newest 156-qubit quantum chip can run 50 times faster than its predecessor — equipping it for scientific research —World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be ...

The world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, is now operational. It was officially launched at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The $600 million system will handle ...

DOE’s plan to use AMD processors for its El Capitan supercomputer comes after the chipmaker announced last May that it would supply next-generation EPYC processors and Radeon Instinct GPUs for ...

Powerful computing platforms let Lawrence Livermore evolve artificial intelligence to ultimately benefit government and Americans, lab’s top AI researchers say.

The most powerful supercomputer, El Capitan, only went online recently, so if it can shave time off that is yet to be seen. The task at hand is called Random Circuit Sampling (RCS), a well ...

With pictures to prove it, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today it has begun receiving and installing components for El Capitan, what is expected to be the third exascale-class ...

In November 2024, the AMD-powered El Capitan officially became the world’s fastest supercomputer, delivering a peak performance of 2.7 exaflops and 1.7 exaflops of sustained performance.

Anything capable of more than 999 petaFLOPS (0.9 exaFLOPS) is referred to as an "exascale" supercomputer. The only other machine more powerful than Frontier is El Capitan — which can reach 1.7 ...