Hewlett Packard Enterprise El Capitan is an exascale supercomputer, hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States, that became operational in 2024. It is based on the Cray EX Shasta architecture.

Nov 18, 2024 · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and AMD, have officially unveiled El Capitan as the world's most powerful supercomputer and first exascale system dedicated to national security.

Deployed in 2024, El Capitan is ranked as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, capable of performing more than 2.79 exaflops per second. Funded by NNSA’s ASC program, El Capitan was a collaboration among the three NNSA labs—Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia.

May 13, 2024 · Three new systems currently or soon-to-be sited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Monday debuted on the latest Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world, including the first portion of the exascale machine El Capitan.

Jan 21, 2025 · The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale computer.

Nov 18, 2024 · Following years of development, the US' El Capitan supercomputer now ranks as the world's fastest, dethroning the previous champion, Frontier, another US exascale computer.

Jan 10, 2025 · Why it matters: El Capitan — as the $600 million supercomputer is known — will handle an array of classified tasks aimed at securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons and run a variety of other unspecified simulations.

Mar 4, 2020 · El Capitan is the second exascale supercomputer win for AMD, who is also providing the CPUs and GPUs behind the 1.5 exaflops Frontier system for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nov 18, 2024 · LLNL, in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Hewlett Packard Enterprise and AMD, have officially unveiled El Capitan as the world's most powerful supercomputer and first exascale system dedicated to national security.

Jul 12, 2023 · Officials from the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have said El Capitan is likely to become the world's fastest supercomputer when it launches in 2024, but whether the system actually achieves that distinction depends on other countries' exascale supercomputing efforts.