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 has a total of 11,136 nodes in liquid-cooled Cray EX racks, with four MI300A compute engines per node and a total of 44,544 devices across the system. Each device has 128 GB of HBM3 main ...

El Capitan, built by HPE Cray, is powered by 44,544 AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing units (APUs). Each APU integrates 24 Zen 4 processor cores with six CDNA 3 compute dies, delivering ...

The El Capitan supercomputer housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California was officially named the fastest supercomputer in the world, processing a peak of 2.7 exaflops and able ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. — The El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was officially dedicated to U.S. national security missions and nuclear stockpile management Thursday ...

In addition, El Capitan will also conduct research on projects such as fusion energy, climate science, and drug discovery. According to Top500, the US has the top four fastest supercomputers, ...

El Capitan tops the 2024 TOP500 list as the world’s fastest supercomputer, driving breakthroughs in AI, nuclear research, and energy.

El Capitan is the new world leader in raw computing power It is situated at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) El Capitan is powered by AMD instinct MI300A APUs The global ...