LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
The Register, Monday, November 18th, 2024
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Lawrence Livermore National Lab's (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier's 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new high water mark for high-performance computing (HPC).
At 1.74 exaFLOPS of double precision performance as measured by the venerable Linpack (HPL) benchmark, the system, built by HPE Cray, boasts nearly 30 percent higher performance compared to the previous champion, which since its initial debut has climbed from 1.1 exaFLOPS to 1.35.