Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy, HPE and AMD are partnering with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop El Capitan, an exascale-class supercomputer capable of 2 exaflops.

El Capitan supercomputer.

El Capitan

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's El Capitan supercomputer is poised to become the world's fastest system, delivering 16 times faster performance than their current flagship supercomputer.  Built by HPE along with AMD, the system will address essential issues ranging from nuclear stockpile stewardship to threats posed to the environment as well as healthcare research. 

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El Capitan by the numbers

On track to be the world’s fastest supercomputer.

2

quintillion

El Capitan will be capable of 2 quintillion calculations per second – that’s 2 exaflops, 2,000 petaflops, or 18 zeros – 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 – fast!

3

NNSA labs

El Capitan will be used by all three NNSA Tri-Labs – Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories.

7.7

billion

If all 7.7 billion people on Earth each completed one calculation per second, it would take over 8 years to do what El Capitan will be capable of doing in 1 second.

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