Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy, HPE and AMD have partnered with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop El Capitan, the world fastest, verified supercomputer in the world.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise delivers world's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan," for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
El Capitan achieves 1.809 exaflops, becoming the most powerful supercomputer in the world. The supercomputer features 100% fanless direct liquid-cooling technology from HPE and ranks as one of the top 20 most energy-efficient supercomputers on the Green500 list.
The world’s only three verified exascale supercomputers, all built by HPE, take the top three spots on list of the most powerful systems.
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Built by HPE, LLNL’s El Capitan supercomputer is #1 on the Top500 list
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Built by HPE, LLNL’s El Capitan supercomputer is #1 on the HPCG list with 17.41 petaflops of performance
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Built by HPE, LLNL’s El Capitan supercomputer is #1 on the HPL-MxP list with 16.7 exaflops of performance
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El Capitan news and resources
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PodcastHow do you make the world’s fastest supercomputer?
Technology Now dives into the world of supercomputers, and how El Capitan, the world’s largest supercomputer, was built. We will explore the software and hardware requirements as well as investigating the physical requirements needed to even be able to run a supercomputer on your premises. Bronis de Supinski, CTO of Livermore Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, tells us more.
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PodcastWhat do you do with the world’s largest supercomputer?
Technology Now looks further into the world of supercomputers and explores what the world’s largest supercomputer, El Capitan, and its sister machine, Tuolumne, are used for. Rob Rieben, a computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, tells us more.
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VideoUpdate on the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Learn about the game-changing potential of El Capitan, an exascale-class supercomputer, and discover how El Capitan will not only transform HPC and AI but also revolutionize scientific research across multiple domains.
