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    Tech editor takes close snaps of world’s fastest supercomputer and lives to publish them




    • El Capitan is a classified US government property that crunches data related to US nuclear arsenal
    • ServeTheHome’s Patrick Kennedy was invited for the launch at the LLNL in California
    • AMD and HPE’s CEOs were also part of the ceremony

    In November 2024, the AMD-powered El Capitan officially became the world’s fastest supercomputer, delivering a peak performance of 2.7 exaflops and 1.7 exaflops of sustained performance.

    Built by HPE for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to simulate nuclear weapons tests, it is powered by AMD Instinct MI300A APUs and dethroned the previous leader, Frontier, pushing it down to second place among the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

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