INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
HPE has announced that it will deliver the world's fastest exascale supercomputer for the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National
Security Administration (NNSA).The new supercomputer, which can reach a record-breaking speed of two exaflops, has been named El Capitan by
the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
The supercomputer is expected to be delivered in early 2023 and it will be managed and hosted by LLNL for use by the LLNL, Sandia National
Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory.El Capitan will enable advanced simulation and modeling in order to support the US nuclear
stockpile's reliability and security
HPE is optimizing the supercomputer to power complex and time-consuming 3D exploratory simulations for NNSA missions that today's
supercomputers are unable to successfully manage
El Capitan will allow researchers to explore new applications using emerging, data-intensive workloads including modeling, simulation,
analytics and AI to support future NNSA missions.Senior vice president and general manager of HPC and Mission Critical Solutions (MCS) at
an industry and as a nation, we have achieved a major milestone in computing
HPE is honored to support the United States Department of Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a critical strategic mission
firm will apply its experience from the high-performance computing industry to the new system.El Capitan will use the company's next
These processors will support next generation memory and I/O sub systems for AI and HPC workloads.In terms of graphical performance, next
generation Radeon Instinct GPUs based on a new compute-optimized architecture for workloads including HPC and AI will be used in the
These GPUs will use next generation high bandwidth memory and have been designed for optimum deep learning performance.All of AMD's
components within El Capitan will be linked via 3rd Gen AMD Infinity Architecture which will provide a high-bandwidth, low latency
connection between the four Radeon Instinct GPUs and the one AMD EPYC CPU included in each node of the supercomputer.Senior vice president
and general manager of the Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Business Group at AMD, Forrest Norrod thanked HPE for choosing to use its
