El Capitan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore supercomputer is crowned world’s speediest
El Capitan” takes top spot in global supercomputer race, helping tackle daunting challenges in national security and science.
Lawrence Livermore Lab’s ‘El Capitan’ crowned world’s fastest supercomputer
A supercomputer housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore has officially been crowned as the world’s fastest. The computer, known as “El Capitan,” is a collaboration between LLNL,
All hail our new leader — AMD-powered El Capitan becomes officially the world’s fastest supercomputer
With a sustained compute power of 1.7 exaflops and a peak of over 2.7 exaflops, El Capitan knocks previous leader Frontier to second on the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. El Capitan was built by HPE for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to simulate nuclear weapons tests.
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.
Lawrence Livermore’s El Capitan supercomputer is officially fastest in the world
El Capitan’s data processing abilities represent a major advancement in scientific research, particularly for managing the nuclear stockpile.
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,
El Capitan dethrones Frontier to become the world’s fastest supercomputer
El Capitan dethrones Frontier as the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.74 exaFLOPS of double precision performance.
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