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Title: 'El Capitan' Ranked Most Powerful Supercomputer In the World

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/0012...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's "El Capitan" supercomputer is now
ranked as the world's most powerful, exceeding a High-Performance Linpack
(HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops on the latest Top500 list. Engadget reports: El
Capitan is only the third "exascale" computer, meaning it can perform more
than a quintillion calculations in a second. The other two, called Frontier
and Aurora, claim the second and third place slots on the TOP500 now.
Unsurprisingly, all of these massive machines live within government research
facilities: El Capitan is housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
Frontier is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Argonne National Laboratory
claims Aurora. [Cray Computing] had a hand in all three systems. El Capitan
has more than 11 million combined CPU and GPU cores based on AMD 4th-gen EPYC
processors. These 24-core processors are rated at 1.8GHz each and have AMD
Instinct M1300A APUs. It's also relatively efficient, as such systems go,
squeezing out an estimated 58.89 Gigaflops per watt. If you're wondering what
El Capitan is built for, the answer is addressing nuclear stockpile safety,
but it can also be used for nuclear counterterrorism.

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