The fastest supercomputer in the world has officially launched at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California. The supercomputer, called "El Capitan," cost $600 million to build and will handle various sensitive and classified tasks, including securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons in the absence of underground testing. It can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale computer.
The fastest supercomputer in the world has officially launched at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California. The supercomputer, called "El Capitan," cost $600 million to build and will handle various sensitive and classified tasks, including securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons in the absence of underground testing. It can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale computer.