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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 United States and its primary purpose is to support the stockpile stewardship program of the US National Nuclear Security Administration.
"El Capitan" is a song by Scottish rock band Idlewild from their fourth studio album, Warnings/Promises (2005). It was released as the third single from the album on 11 July 2005 and charted at No. 39 in the UK Singles Chart. "El Capitan" is a song by Omaha-based indie rock band Bright Eyes from their eleventh studio album, Five Dice, All ...
The Salathé Wall is one of the original big wall climbing routes up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot (900 m) high granite monolith in Yosemite National Park.The Salathé Wall was named by Yvon Chouinard in honor of John Salathé, a pioneer of rock climbing in Yosemite.
El Capitan, a granite monolith on Yosemite Valley's northern escarpment. Almost all of the landforms are cut from the granitic rock of the Sierra Nevada Batholith (a batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock that formed deep below the surface). [79]
HPE Frontier at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is the world's first exascale supercomputer. Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least 10 18 IEEE 754 Double Precision (64-bit) operations (multiplications and/or additions) per second (exa FLOPS)"; [1] it is a measure of supercomputer performance.
The English designation Agathla is derived from the Navajo name aghaałą́ meaning 'much wool', apparently for the fur of antelope and deer accumulating on the rock. [3] The mountain is considered sacred by the Navajo. Agathla Peak is an eroded volcanic plug consisting of volcanic breccia cut by dikes of an unusual igneous rock called minette.
K computer: 10.51 PFLOPS* [33] 2012 United States: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: IBM: Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q) 16.32 PFLOPS* [34] Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Cray: Titan: 17.59 PFLOPS* [35] 2013 China: National Supercomputing Center of Guangzhou: National University of Defense Technology: Tianhe-2: 33.86 PFLOPS* [36] 2016 National ...
As of November 2024, the United States' El Capitan is the most powerful supercomputer in the TOP500, reaching 1742 petaFlops (1.742 exaFlops) on the LINPACK benchmarks. [2] As of 2018, the United States has by far the highest share of total computing power on the list (nearly 50%). [3]