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 ...

The supercomputer, called "El Capitan," cost $600 million to build and will handle various sensitive and classified tasks including securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons in the absence of ...

DOE’s plan to use AMD processors for its El Capitan supercomputer comes after the chipmaker announced last May that it would supply next-generation EPYC processors and Radeon Instinct GPUs for ...

Quantum computing firm D-Wave claims it has demonstrated quantum supremacy on a “useful, real-world problem.” The company ...

Two of Houston's largest public companies revealed the latest in their partnership: a supercomputer four times faster than ...

Powerful computing platforms let Lawrence Livermore evolve artificial intelligence to ultimately benefit government and Americans, lab’s top AI researchers say.

The most powerful supercomputer, El Capitan, only went online recently, so if it can shave time off that is yet to be seen. The task at hand is called Random Circuit Sampling (RCS), a well ...

With pictures to prove it, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today it has begun receiving and installing components for El Capitan, what is expected to be the third exascale-class ...

Thanks to R&D World for this one - the world’s top ten supercomputers 1. El Capitan El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), ...

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.

Celebrating achievements at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, milestones for women in the East Bay, and Antioch high ...

El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer, is now operational at LLNL. Costing $600 million, it delivers a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS. Designed for classified U.S. nuclear security ...