{"id":204535,"date":"2025-01-25T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T01:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-el-capitan-goes-online-to-safeguard-us-nuclear-weapons"},"modified":"2025-01-25T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T01:05:48","slug":"worlds-fastest-supercomputer-el-capitan-goes-online-to-safeguard-us-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-el-capitan-goes-online-to-safeguard-us-nuclear-weapons","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s fastest supercomputer, \u201cEl Capitan,\u201d goes online to safeguard US nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-el-capitan-goes-online-to-safeguard-us-nuclear-weapons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/news\/highlights\/el-capitan-high-performance-computing\">El Capitan<\/a> can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration\u2019s first exascale supercomputer. It\u2019s the world\u2019s third exascale machine after the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, also in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s fastest supercomputer is powered by more than 11 million CPU and GPU cores integrated into 43,000+ AMD Instinct MI300A accelerators. Each MI300A APU comprises an EPYC Genoa 24-core CPU clocked at 1.8GHz and a CDNA3 GPU integrated onto a single organic package, along with 128GB of HBM3 memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Capitan can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration\u2019s first exascale supercomputer. It\u2019s the world\u2019s third exascale machine after the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, also in Illinois. The world\u2019s fastest supercomputer is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}