Lawrence Livermore supercomputer is crowned world's speediest
The Bay Area has just won a coveted crown in computing, with a massive new machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
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World's new fastest supercomputer is built to simulate nuclear bombs
The vast computational power of the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will be ...
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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.
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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US' El Capitan Is Now the World's Fastest Supercomputer
The machine also boasts a "22-fold peak increase" over Sierra, which was the world’s second-fastest supercomputer in 2018 but ...
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Big Ideas Lab Unveils El Capitan: Top Supercomputer
On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of Lawrence Livermore National ...
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“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. And ...
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El Capitan Crowned World's Fastest Supercomputer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), ...
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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 ...
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Fury from campaigners as Elon Musk's xAI gets 150MW for Colossus supercomputer in Memphis
Memphis residents have criticized state grid operator the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for granting Elon Musk’s xAI access to 150MW of additional power for the company’s Colossus supercomputer.
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Dispatch from a nuclear petting zoo
Petting zoos, parks, and America’s pastime: how the language of deterrence depicts nuclear weapons as natural and ...
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AMD Will Need Another Decade To Try To Pass Nvidia
Depending on how you measure the FP64 performance for El Capitan – either on vector or tensor cores – and depending on the peak performance you expect it to have (we are guessing 2.25 exaflops), the ...