FILE: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, February 2023. A rockslide came off the east side of El Capitan on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, originating near Yosemite's famous firefall.

Advanced Micro Devices AMD showcased its high-performance computing (HPC) dominance at Supercomputing 2024 with the El Capitan supercomputer. Powered by AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, it became the ...

In 2015, mountain guide Zuko Carrasco's world collapsed in a trust fall gone awry. Eight years later, he looked to reclaim his independence with an audacious plan to scale El Capitan.

“El Capitan will likely be the most powerful supercomputer in the world at the time of acceptance next year,” LLNL said. The news follows by two weeks an announcement from Argonne National Laboratory ...

At number four is Europe's Jupiter Booster, a partial version of the larger supercomputer being built at Germany's Forschungszentrum Jülich campus. The BullSequana XH3000 features Nvidia GH200 ...

Footage emerged this week of a forceful rock fall inside Yosemite National Park at El Capitan. "Everyone in the valley heard this one," a National Park official told a local newspaper.

El Capitan is about 20 times faster than the lab's previous supercomputer Sierra dedicated in 2018. What took days or weeks on Sierra now can be done just hours on El Capitan.

El Capitan is located in the western portion of the Yosemite Valley. After parking, most visitors use the Valleywide Shuttle to get to the El Capitan picnic area at stop No. 8.