The supercomputer "The Capitan” of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) now ranks as the most powerful in the world, surpassing the High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops in latest Top500 list.
El Capitan is the third computerς “εξακλίμακας” (exascale), που σημαίνει ότι μπορεί να τρέξει περισσότερους από ένα πεντακισεκατομμύριο υπολογισμούς σε ένα δευτερόλεπτο. Οι άλλοι δύο, που ονομάζονται Frontier και Aurora, διεκδικούν τη δεύτερη και τρίτη θέση στο TOP500. Δεν αποτελεί έκπληξη το γεγονός ότι όλα αυτά τα τεράστια machineeyes exist in government research facilities: El Capitan is housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Frontier is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory has Aurora.
El Capitan features more than 11 million combined CPU and GPU cores based on processors AMD 4th generation EPYC.
These 24-core processors are rated at 1,8GHz each and feature an AMD Instinct M1300A APU. It's also relatively efficient as such systems go, delivering around 58,89 Gigaflops per watt.
If you're wondering what El Capitan is built for, the answer is for the security of nuclear stockpiles, but it can also be used for nuclear counter-terrorism.
