Did you think we were sleeping in Silicon Valley? Perhaps check out the Lawrence Livermore Lab's new $600M toy, El Capitan.
El Capitan is the fastest Supercomputer in the world.
@wwillson has BITOG running on a pretty sophisticated solution, but El C is on another level.
What will it do?
"El Capitan will ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear stockpile in the absence of underground testing. It will be essential for the design and stewardship of a modernized stockpile and other critical national security missions. Research performed on El Capitan will also support unclassified mission areas of interest to national security, including material discovery, high energy-density physics, nuclear data, material equations of state, and conventional weapon design."
"Designed to optimize the convergence of AI and high performance computing, the MI300AInstinct APUs deliver unmatched computational performance, energy efficiency and reliability, and are well-suited for work in support of AI-driven workloads that will impact national nuclear security, as well as efforts in fusion energy, climate research and drug discovery."
Just how fast is "fast"?
Verified at 1.742 exaFLOPs (1.742 quintillion calculations per second) on the High Performance Linpack — the standard benchmark used by the Top500 organization to evaluate supercomputing performance — El Capitan is the fastest computing system ever benchmarked. The system has a total peak performance of 2.79 exaFLOPs.
While it will be one of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers, El Capitan will require about 30 megawatts (MW) of energy to run at peak—enough power to run a mid-size city. Better have some solar on the roof...
El Capitan is the fastest Supercomputer in the world.
@wwillson has BITOG running on a pretty sophisticated solution, but El C is on another level.
What will it do?
"El Capitan will ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear stockpile in the absence of underground testing. It will be essential for the design and stewardship of a modernized stockpile and other critical national security missions. Research performed on El Capitan will also support unclassified mission areas of interest to national security, including material discovery, high energy-density physics, nuclear data, material equations of state, and conventional weapon design."
"Designed to optimize the convergence of AI and high performance computing, the MI300AInstinct APUs deliver unmatched computational performance, energy efficiency and reliability, and are well-suited for work in support of AI-driven workloads that will impact national nuclear security, as well as efforts in fusion energy, climate research and drug discovery."
Just how fast is "fast"?
Verified at 1.742 exaFLOPs (1.742 quintillion calculations per second) on the High Performance Linpack — the standard benchmark used by the Top500 organization to evaluate supercomputing performance — El Capitan is the fastest computing system ever benchmarked. The system has a total peak performance of 2.79 exaFLOPs.
While it will be one of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers, El Capitan will require about 30 megawatts (MW) of energy to run at peak—enough power to run a mid-size city. Better have some solar on the roof...
