El Capitan (supercomputer)

El Capitan
Active
  • Deployment: 2H 2023
  • Completion: 2024
SponsorsU.S. Department of Energy
OperatorsLawrence Livermore National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy
LocationLivermore Computing Complex
ArchitectureHPE Cray Shasta
Power40 MW (Proj)
SpaceTBA
MemoryTBA
StorageTBA
Speed1.742 exaFLOPS (Rmax) / 2.746 exaFLOPS (Rpeak)
CostUS$600 million (estimated cost)
PurposeScientific research and development, stockpile stewardship[1]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise El Capitan, is an exascale supercomputer, hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, United States and becoming operational in 2024. It is based on the Cray EX Shasta architecture. El Capitan displaced Frontier as the world's fastest supercomputer in the 64th edition of the Top500 (Nov 2024). El Capitan is the third exascale system deployed by the US.

  1. ^ "Fiscal Year 2023 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan – Biennial Plan Summary Report to Congress" (PDF). United States Department of Energy. pp. 3–17. Retrieved May 27, 2023.