What is known about him

The El Capitan supercomputer was created by Cray Computing, a company that was acquired by manufacturer HP in 2019. Peak performance was expected to reach 1.5 exaflops, but as a result, the power of this machine was announced to be 1.5 exaflops. 1,742 exaflops24 Channel publishes the annual TOP500 ranking as a reference.

El Capitan is the third computer in the world to exceed the “exaflops” barrier; This means it can perform more than a quintillion calculations per second. The other two, Frontier and Aurora, placed second and third, respectively.

All these huge machines are located in state research institutions:

• El Capitan is located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• Frontier is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Aurora is claimed by Argonne National Laboratory.

Interestingly, the company Cray Computing had a hand in the development of all three supercomputers.

El Capitan has over 11 million combined CPU and GPU cores based on AMD’s 4th generation EPYC processors. Each of these 24-core processors is clocked at 1.8GHz and features AMD Instinct M1300A GPUs. It’s also relatively efficient for such systems, squeezing out 58.89 gigaflops per watt.

If you’re wondering what El Capitan was built for, the answer is to keep nuclear stockpiles safe, but it can also be used to combat nuclear terrorism. Because he is more powerful than expected, he will likely hold the throne of honor for a long time before another PC surpasses him.