El Capitan, TOP500 and Supercomputer

TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top, U.S. Now Has 3 Exascale Supercomputers
Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports  that El Capitan,
AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops of performance — fastest Intel machine falls to third place on Top500 list
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 on the planet with 1.
El Capitan bumps Frontier to claim world’s fastest supercomputer title
Newcomer El Capitan unseated five-time No. 1 system Frontier and is now the third exascale machine in the TOP500 supercomputer rankings.
El Capitan with AMD Instinct MI300A APU Becomes Second AMD Supercomputer to Surpass Exascale Barrier, Placing #1 on Top500 list
Today, AMD showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) leadership at Supercomputing 2024 by powering the world’s fastest supercomputer for the sixth straight Top500 list.
El Capitan crowned most powerful supercomputer
When it comes to exaflops it is the floppiest El Capitan has been ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It boasts a benchmark performance of 1.742 exaflops, or 1.742 quintillion calculations per second,
El Capitan ranked the most powerful supercomputer in the world
El Capitan has more than 11 million combined CPU and GPU cores based on AMD 4th-gen EPYC processors. These 24-core processors are rated at 1.8GHz each and have AMD Instinct M1300A APUs. It's also relatively efficient, as such systems go, squeezing out an estimated 58.89 Gigaflops per watt.
US' El Capitan Is Now the World's Fastest Supercomputer
Top500, which benchmarks and catalogs the world’s fastest supercomputers, previously ranked Frontier and Aurora as the two top machines. In this latest round, the AMD-powered Frontier was benchmarked at 1.35 exaFLOPs, while its top theoretical speed was ...
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AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in ...
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TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top
Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a news conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El ...
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Eni's HPC6: Supercomputing at the Service of the Energy Transition
Eni launches HPC6, the new supercomputer that ranks fifth in the world in the TOP500 ranking and first in Europe and in the industrial sector. With a computing power of 606 PFlops, HPC6 represents a ...
Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI): Denmark's new AI supercomputer Gefion ranks 21 on the world's TOP500 list
The Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI) proudly announces that its AI supercomputer Gefion has officially ranked 21 among the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers, according to the latest ...
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LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
SC24 Lawrence Livermore National Lab's (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier's 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked ...