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 ...

Thuc Hoang, one of the women behind the El Capitan supercomputer, has just been awarded one of the highest honors bestowed on ...

The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale computer.

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.

This is what history has taught us to expect from Lawrence Livermore, and with the “El Capitan” system unveiled today at the SC24 supercomputer conference, history is indeed repeating itself. But this ...

El Capitan is now the most powerful supercomputer in existence, as proven by TOP500's list.

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

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The El Capitan supercomputer housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California was officially named the fastest ...

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 ...

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.

Building the supercomputer El Capitan required the collaborative efforts of teams at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the National Nuclear Security Administration, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and AMD.

Both the El Capitan and Frontier supercomputers are exascale level machines — they carry out exaFLOPS in double precision IEEE 754 calculations — based around commodity x86_64 CPUs in a ...