{"id":220042,"date":"2025-08-13T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-explore-real-time-tsunami-warning-system-on-worlds-fastest-supercomputer"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:09:38","slug":"scientists-explore-real-time-tsunami-warning-system-on-worlds-fastest-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-explore-real-time-tsunami-warning-system-on-worlds-fastest-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists explore real-time tsunami warning system on world\u2019s fastest supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-explore-real-time-tsunami-warning-system-on-worlds-fastest-supercomputer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system\u2014powered by El Capitan, the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer\u2014that could dramatically improve early warning capabilities for coastal communities near earthquake zones.<\/p>\n<p>The exascale El Capitan, which has a theoretical peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second, was developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). As described in a preprint paper selected as a finalist for the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, researchers at LLNL harnessed the machine\u2019s full computing power in a one-time, offline precomputation step, prior to the system\u2019s transition to classified national-security work. The goal: to generate an immense library of physics-based simulations, linking earthquake-induced seafloor motion to resulting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tsunami+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tsunami waves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.16344\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system\u2014powered by El Capitan, the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer\u2014that could dramatically improve early warning capabilities for coastal communities near earthquake zones. The exascale El Capitan, which has a theoretical peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second, was developed at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,873,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nuclear-energy","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220042","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}