'El Capitan' Ranked Most Powerful Supercomputer In the World (engadget.com) 8
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's "El Capitan" supercomputer is now ranked as the world's most powerful, exceeding a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops on the latest Top500 list. Engadget reports: El Capitan is only the third "exascale" computer, meaning it can perform more than a quintillion calculations in a second. The other two, called Frontier and Aurora, claim the second and third place slots on the TOP500 now. Unsurprisingly, all of these massive machines live within government research facilities: El Capitan is housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Frontier is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Argonne National Laboratory claims Aurora. [Cray Computing] had a hand in all three systems.
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. If you're wondering what El Capitan is built for, the answer is addressing nuclear stockpile safety, but it can also be used for nuclear counterterrorism.
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. If you're wondering what El Capitan is built for, the answer is addressing nuclear stockpile safety, but it can also be used for nuclear counterterrorism.
"... estimated 58.89 Gigaflops per watt." (Score:2)
I missed the last Apple event. Apple loves comparing the specs for its latest hardware with that of the competition. What value did it quote for the M4 mini?
Tesla (Score:2)
The kessel run (Score:3)
It does it in 8 parsnips
Nuclear counterterrorism (Score:3)
but it can also be used for nuclear counterterrorism.
What does that mean?
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Presumably that there is some paranoia that bad dudes will get their hands on nukes or , more likely, thermal 'dirty bomb' capacity (Ie a regular bomb that spreads nasty radioactive shit everywhere, ie a bomb packed with spent uranium shit)
I'm not super convinced but the likelyhood of certain rogue states (Iran, NK) leveling up to nuke capable and then outfitting whacko groups with that capacity cant be entirely ruled out.
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Presumably that there is some paranoia that bad dudes will get their hands on nukes or , more likely, thermal 'dirty bomb' capacity
I'm sure you are right, there are crazy people who want to set of nuclear bombs in populated areas. I'm just not sure how a supercomputer helps with counterterrorism to stop that.
Beowulf (Score:1)
something
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Ahh the old Slashdot memes, a gentler age