
Lawrence Livermore supercomputer is crowned world’s speediest
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/11/18/lawrence-livermore-supercomputer-is-crowned-worlds-speediest/
The Bay Area has just won a coveted crown in computing, with a massive new machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory deemed the most powerful system in the world.
Meet El Capitan, which churns through data at 1.742 quintillion calculations per second — think 1.7 followed by 18 zeroes — to simulate the testing needed to evaluate the health and extend the lifetimes of America’s nuclear weapons.