El Capitan: World's Fastest Supercomputer

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AMD-powered El Capitan officially became the world’s fastest supercomputer in November 2024 .

Built by HPE for the National Nuclear Security Administration ( NNSA ) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to simulate nuclear weapons tests.

The system is powered by AMD Instinct MI300A APUs and dethroned the previous leader, Frontier , pushing it down to second place.

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