Hewlett Packard Enterprise El Capitan, an exascale supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California (Garry McLeod/LLNL via Bay City News)
Livermore, California – The world’s fastest supercomputer is located in the Bay Area at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
El Capitan, which can perform 1.742 quintillion calculations per second, will be validated as the world’s most powerful supercomputer at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference in Atlanta this week, Federal Institute for Research officials said. Ta. One quintillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 1 billion.
The so-called exascale supercomputer was developed in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a “global edge-to-cloud company,” and server CPU company AMD.
Lawrence Livermore Institute officials said in a statement that the purpose of the technology is to “advance nuclear weapons science and scientific discovery and ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear deterrent without conducting nuclear tests.” “Provide the vast amount of computing power needed to do this.”
El Capitan, along with Lawrence Livermore, located on the eastern edge of the city, will be a resource for Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory.
Institute officials said in a statement that the machine will “simultaneously advance the modernization of the arsenal” of nuclear warheads currently under development while furthering “NNSA’s core mission of preserving aging stockpiles” of nuclear weapons. He said that it will be used for “to do”.
Planned uses for El Capitan include “modeling advanced high-energy density physics experiments,” including “detailed understanding of the behavior of materials under extreme conditions.”
“El Capitan’s extraordinary computing power will enable us to tackle complex challenges that were previously out of reach,” said Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore Institute. I am proud to work together to lead this outcome and move society forward in a way that benefits society and society.” As a nation as a whole. ”
Hewlett Packard Enterprise officials said in a news release this week about El Capitan that the company’s AI-driven scientific research will “support national security efforts and improve energy security, climate change, and power grid modernization.” It will accelerate classified and unclassified research in drug development, drug discovery, and research.” other areas. ”
For more information about the El Capitan system, visit https://www.llnl.gov/news/highlights/el-capitan-high-performance-computing.
