El Capitan: The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Is Revolutionizing National Security and Science

Newly deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, El Capitan — the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) first exascale supercomputer, is setting new benchmarks in computing power. At 2.79 exaFLOPs (2.79 quintillion calculations per second) of peak performance — a processing power equivalent to one million top-of-the-line smartphones all working at once — El Capitan’s unprecedented capabilities are already impacting scientific computing and making the previously unimaginable a reality. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and featuring AMD’s cutting-edge MI300A Instinct Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), El Capitan supports the NNSA’s mission of ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Performing complex modeling and simulation of nuclear explosions in high-resolution, ultra-realistic 3D, jobs that once took days or weeks to run on supercomputers built just a few years ago can now be completed in a single workday, or even a matter of hours. Beyond national security, El Capitan and its unclassified companion system, Tuolumne, will drive groundbreaking research in materials science, high energy density physics, space science, advanced manufacturing, drug discovery, climate modeling and more. Find out how these revolutionary machines, with their unparalleled performance and versatility, are transforming science and national security. 💻 LLNL News: https://www.llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: / livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: / livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: / livermore_lab 🔔 Subscribe: / livermorelab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: https://www.llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-2001722 #ExascaleComputing #LLNL #LawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory