LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance

Lawrence Livermore National Lab's (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier's 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new high water mark for high-performance computing (HPC). At 1.74 exaFLOPS of double precision performance as measured by the venerable Linpack (HPL) benchmark, the …

[Neil Barnes]

What? All those exaflops?

And they're not doing critical work to train some statistical idiot, er, sorry, I mean of course AI...

[Rich 2]

China

Has China fallen off the chart? Or are they just not advertising what they have any more? Which is much easier now that they are using home-grown silicon rather than buying from Intel or AMD (which has become rather difficult for them of late)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: China

China started its own top100 list which seems to have been last updated at the end of last year. The top 3 machines there run at 488, 208 and 125 PF/s, and are not listed in Top500. The 4th machine, at 93 PF/s, is the Sunway TaihuLight that is #15 in the latest Top500. Their ExaFlop machines, however, don't seem to be explicitly listed anywhere.

[Paul Herber]

Supercomputers

How does a standard modern PC compare with the original Cray 1?

[Neil Barnes]

Re: Supercomputers

According to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359171179_Cray_1_Supercomputer_Performance_Comparisons_With_Home_Computers_Phones_and_Tablets a mid range 2021 laptop is between 226 and 2671 times faster than the Cray 1 from 12 comparisons, dependent on the particular application. The 2020 Raspberry Pi produced gains between 25 and 400 times, and a 2020 phone about twice that.

[Chris Gray 1]

Re: Supercomputers

They lack class. No benches. Not round. Not hand-wired.

[Rich 2]

Re: Supercomputers

And not cooled with artificial blood

[Bonzo_red]

Trident

Can it also be used to calculate why the British Trident missile just went pffft on launch?

[StargateSg7]

1.74 ExaFLOPS? Are you kidding me?

Cough! Cough! NCA (North Canadian Aerospace) Still Wins!!!!

With Latest Upgrades/Updates:

Haida Gwaii (3 YottaFLOPS at 128-bits wide)

Thunderhorse (5 YottaFLOPS at 128-bits wide)

DragonFyre (6 YottaFLOPS at 128-bits wide)

Quasar's Child (10 YottaFLOPS at 128-bits wide)

24 YottaFLOPS Total on a 128-Bits Wide, GaAs at 2 THz clock speed per chip of Combined-CPU/GPU/DSP/Vector Super-Processor Grid Array!

Running WBE (aka Whole Brain Emulations!) a full 24/7/365 using physics-based models of human neural structures via molecular-scale electro-chemistry simulations!

YAY Canada! We Win !!!

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[luis river]

CONGRATULATIONS

The great honour HPC Elcapitan total functional enormous machine its total merit by H. Packard Enterprise, a hightech confident corporation. !!!