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Legacy

Ascending to Exascale

El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 2 exaflops—roughly 16 times faster on average than the Sierra system—and is projected to be several times more energy efficient than Sierra.

Radiation-driven Kelvin–Helmholtz instability experiment

MAPP

The MAPP incorporates multiple software packages into one integrated code so that multiphysics simulation codes can perform at scale on present and future supercomputers.

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RAJA Portability Suite

A Livermore-developed programming approach helps software to run on different platforms without major disruption to the source code.

PEOPLE
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Greg Lee

Greg Lee helps develop tools designed to boost performance and productivity of Livermore scientists.

Olga Pearce discusses the Sierra supercomputer with Tanzima Islam

Olga Pearce

Olga Pearce studies how to detect and correct load imbalance in high performance computing applications.

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Chris Morrone

Working extensively with open-source software such as Lustre and engaging with the broader open-source community is what computer scientist Chris Morrone enjoys most about his job, and it is one…

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Podcast: Introducing El Capitan

On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of LLNL's latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

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LLNL and Oxide work together to advance cloud and HPC convergence

Oxide Cloud Computer installation at Livermore Computing's HPC center modernizes on-premises cloud computing capabilities for general purpose workloads.

El Capitan

El Capitan verified as world's fastest supercomputer

Verified at 1.742 exaflops (1.742 quintillion calculations per second) on the High Performance Linpack—the standard benchmark used by the Top500 organization to evaluate supercomputing performance—El Capitan is the fastest computing system ever benchmarked.