Locator: 49073SUPER.
New supercomputer: unclassified computer at Lawrence Livermore to complement existing El Capitan; link here. At the blog, supercomputers are tracked here.
- this might catch your eye: AMD and HPE;
- the speed of El Capitan can be attributed to its AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing units, which combine CPU cores, GPU cores and high bandwidth memory.
- also important to the supercomputer are contributions from HPE,
including its Cray Supercomputing EX solution, direct liquid-cooling
system and Slingshot interconnect.
- El Capitan: #1
- Tuolumne: #10; on-line late 2024/early 2025
- of note:
The computing power El Capitan offers is unprecedented, lab officials repeated at the dedication event.
At peak performance El Capitan offers over a 22-fold increase in computing performance over Sierra, previously the fastest system at the lab, according to documents from the event. This means high-resolution simulations that would have taken weeks or months will only require hours or days on El Capitan.
Despite being about 1/10th the size of El Capitan, Tuolumne ranks as the 10th fastest supercomputer in the world thanks to its identical architecture and components to El Capitan.
“I think calling Tuolumne number ten doesn’t do it justice,” Budil said. “Our open science machine is bigger than our current, last generation national security machine. So this step is truly revolutionary for us in terms of capability.”
Screenshot from wiki, September 11, 2025:
On stage for the announcement: AMD's CEO -- Dr Lisa Su.
