El Capitan becomes world's fastest supercomputer with 2.79 exaflops performance
El Capitan represents an evolution over its predecessor, the Sierra supercomputer, which has been operational since 2018.
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Inside ‘El Capitan’ the Most Powerful Supercomputer Ever Built. It Will Simulate Nuclear Weapons
With its 2.746 exaFLOPS peak performance, “El Capitan” outpaces every other supercomputer on the planet, including the former ...
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World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...
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National Lab Briefs
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is supposed to be one of the government’s most secure weapons facilities, but when an in-house investigator wanted to test the sobriety of its support personnel, ...
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Frothy silver foam and fusion-grade lasers create world's brightest X-ray
A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...
Nuclear fusion could be the future of clean energy if it can overcome these hurdles
The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century ...
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El Capitan supercomputer is ready to handle nuclear stockpile and AI workflows
The fastest supercomputer in the world, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, was dedicated to U.S. national security ...
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National Ignition Facility laser at LLNL creates world's brightest X-ray source
"Your dentist's X-ray machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy metal plate; the electrons in the beam ...
World's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan," goes online to safeguard US nuclear weapons
El Capitan can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale supercomputer. It's the world's third exascale machine ...
Four takeaways from the Los Alamos National Laboratory 'State of the Lab'
Los Alamos National Laboratory is planning to further the field of artificial intelligence and will increase its capacity for manufacturing new plutonium pits in the coming year, according to Lab ...
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Leveraging Radiofrequency Identification Success Beyond Hazardous Material Inventory Management at a National Laboratory
Effective inventory management can be overshadowed by conflicting priorities in organizational procedures, particularly in research-focused institutions such as national laboratories that handle ...