AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops of performance — fastest Intel machine falls to third place on Top500 list
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 on the planet with 1.742 exaflops of performance. El Capitan ...
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LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
At 1.74 exaFLOPS of double precision performance as measured by the venerable Linpack (HPL) benchmark, the system, built by HPE Cray, boasts nearly 30 percent higher performance compared to the previous champion, which since its initial debut has climbed from 1.1 exaFLOPS to 1.35.
El Capitan bumps Frontier to claim world’s fastest supercomputer title
Newcomer El Capitan unseated five-time No. 1 system Frontier and is now the third exascale machine in the TOP500 supercomputer rankings.
US' El Capitan Is Now the World's Fastest Supercomputer
The supercomputer, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieves 1.742 exaFLOPs. China's machines could be even faster, but it's not sharing details publicly.
El Capitan ranked the most powerful supercomputer in the world
When Cray Computing, a supercomputer manufacturer acquired by HP in 2019, announced that it would build El Capitan it expected the computer to reach a peak performance of 1.5 exaflops. Today, the 64th edition of the TOP500 — a long-running ranking of the world's non-distributed supercomputers — was published,
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AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in ...
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TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top
Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a news conference attendance record, the ...
The World Has a New Most Powerful Supercomputer. It’s Going to Build Nukes
The newly unveiled El Capitan system can perform more than 1.7 quintillion floating point operations per second.
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Frontier supercomputer hits new highs in third year of exascale
Frontier is an HPE Cray EX system with more than 9,800 nodes, each equipped with a third-generation AMD EPYC™ CPU and four AMD Instinct™ MI250X GPUs. The OLCF is a DOE Office of Science user facility.
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AMD Accelerates Exascale Computing to New Heights Powering the Fastest Supercomputer Ever, El Capitan
Nov. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) leadership ...
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AMD says ‘thrilled to see’ El Capitan become fastest supercomputer in the world
AMD (AMD) says the company “showcased its ongoing high performance computing,” or HPC, leadership at Supercomputing 2024 by powering the world’s fastest supercomputer for the sixth straight Top500 ...
Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI): Denmark's new AI supercomputer Gefion ranks 21 on the world's TOP500 list
The Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI) proudly announces that its AI supercomputer Gefion has officially ranked 21 among the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers, according to the latest ...